[at-l] Slow E-mail

[rbenhameda@home.com (Rami)]

It's called Carnivore.  It's been around for more than a year.  The Major
internet backbone services and isp's (sprint, earthlink, aol, qwest, at&t,
etc.)  have been providing the FBI access to their customer's internet/email
traffic for quite some time.

According to the FBI's description of the process, it creates a copy of a
suspect's electronic communications (internet & e-mail) and sends that copy
to an FBI access point.  There the data is compared to a "Filter" which can
be words, web sites, transactions, etc. and then, only those items which
pass the filter are recorded for later examination.

This is a link to an FBI briefing to the Senate Judiciary Committee from
9-6-2000:

http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress00/kerr090600.htm

and this is a link to the FBI's carnivore website:

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/carnivore/carnivore.htm


happy surfing!

-r

Bruce wrote:
  A rumor floating around has it that the new "secret"
  eavesdropping software on the server level hasn't settled in yet.



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