The Fucking Chimp_junta is Still Watching YOUR COMPUTER
PCWorld.com - Stopping Carnivore Doesn't Stop FBI Surveillance: "Erin Biba, Medill News Service
Monday, January 24, 2005
WASHINGTON--The FBI has discontinued the use of Carnivore, its controversial and top-secret Internet monitoring program, but your Internet service provider probably has already taken its place as a gatherer of information.
Surprisingly, after all the controversy about the Carnivore program when word of its use first trickled out nearly five years ago, the FBI says it hasn't used the Carnivore program in the past 24 months. Instead, it substitutes commercially available programs that do the same thing--gather information, such as e-mail messages, from the PC of a person under investigation.
Created by the FBI, Carnivore began operating as a surveillance tool in 2000. At the time, members of Congress and privacy groups such as Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) criticized the agency out of fear that the program could retrieve information about people who were not under investigation.
'When we developed [Carnivore], it was, at that time, the best product available,' FBI spokesman Paul Bresson says. 'We knew because of all the publicity there would be a lot [of software] commercially made available.' The FBI did not, according to Bresson, officially stop using the program. The software simply became outdated."
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Monday, January 24, 2005
WASHINGTON--The FBI has discontinued the use of Carnivore, its controversial and top-secret Internet monitoring program, but your Internet service provider probably has already taken its place as a gatherer of information.
Surprisingly, after all the controversy about the Carnivore program when word of its use first trickled out nearly five years ago, the FBI says it hasn't used the Carnivore program in the past 24 months. Instead, it substitutes commercially available programs that do the same thing--gather information, such as e-mail messages, from the PC of a person under investigation.
Created by the FBI, Carnivore began operating as a surveillance tool in 2000. At the time, members of Congress and privacy groups such as Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) criticized the agency out of fear that the program could retrieve information about people who were not under investigation.
'When we developed [Carnivore], it was, at that time, the best product available,' FBI spokesman Paul Bresson says. 'We knew because of all the publicity there would be a lot [of software] commercially made available.' The FBI did not, according to Bresson, officially stop using the program. The software simply became outdated."
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