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U.S.: Carnivore update.

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Priority: normal Date sent: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:11:31 EST Send reply to: Law & Policy of Computer Communications <CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> From: "Robert A. Jacoby" <jacoby@LAW.LAW.SC.EDU> Organization: law.law.sc.edu Subject: Carnivore update. To: CYBERIA-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

The FBI has released info on Carnivore, and (surprise) over half of it's been redacted:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2636341,00.html?chkpt=hud0004200

(sorry for the URL)

Some highlights:

"Several performance tests were also released. While most of the data was blacked out, the reports were dated Sept. 8, 2000, apparently indicating that the FBI only recently decided to measure the results."

and:

"There is one document that talks very generally about voice-over-IP interception," said Banisar. "It's mostly about what 'voice-over-IP' is. When it gets to the part about what they are doing about it -- those pages are redacted."

Perhaps Mr. Lehrer could ask the candidates about Carnivore at the next debate.

Robert Jacoby (speaking only for myself) Reference Librarian/Webmaster Coleman Karesh Law Library University of South Carolina 803-777-1666 jacoby@law.law.sc.edu ------- End of forwarded message -------

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