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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (42885)12/16/2005 12:26:15 AM
From: regli  Read Replies (1) of 116555
 
I agree that requesting warrants would be right way. However, warrants are a lot of work and with today's technology there is great temptation to act upon pattern recognition and nowadays with cheap storage technology and powerful software this is possible.

We are entering a very dangerous time. I am sure you have heard my rants about privacy time and time again.

If it can be done with email why not with telephone calls?

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Carnivore now goes by the less beastly moniker of DCS1000, drawn from the work it does as a "digital collection system." The investigative agency built the tool to monitor the Internet communications of suspects under its surveillance, but the system, housed on computers at Internet service providers, also can collect e-mail messages from people who are not part of an FBI probe.

More info about Carnivore and its derivatives here:

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