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Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Wed Jul 12 23:57:44 2000
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:16:30 -0700
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
Meyer Wolfsheim <wolf@priori.net>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>, cryptography@c2.net,
Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@listserv.aol.com>
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At 10:58 AM 7/12/00 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>There's been speculation about NSA black boxes in such facilities for
>>years. The FBI, however, isn't quite as "above the law" as the NSA likes
For $500/monthly you too can have a box in various NAPs. You can
run your NIC in Bill Clinton mode, e.g., to measure certain
things about traffic. I know of a corporation doing this (they
are only interested in infrastructure traffic, not content).