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Congress isn't swallowing Carnivore

...Both Republicans and Democrats raised repeated concerns about how the FBI's email surveillance software operates. Committee members demanded to know why the FBI didn... Read more

25 July, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley

The technology behind FBI's 'Carnivore'

The law enforcement agency's secret box for sniffing emails may run on Windows NT - but details are still a mystery Read more

20 July, 2000 by Ben Charny

UK workers paranoid over email surveillance

More than half of UK workers don't trust their IT departments or their colleagues when it comes to personal email Read more

20 March, 2003 by Will Sturgeon

FBI uses covert email surveillance system

A super-fast scanning system nicknamed 'Carnivore' is being used by the FBI to covertly search through email messages, says the Wall Street Journal Read more

12 July, 2000 by Will Knight

News Burst: FBI uses covert email surveillance system

A super-fast scanning system nicknamed 'Carnivore' is being used by the FBI to covertly search through email messages, says the Wall Street Journal Read more

11 July, 2000 by Will Knight

Judge: FBI must cough up Carnivore info

...fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore email surveillance system. A federal judge this week ordered the FBI to expand... Read more

28 March, 2002 by Gwendolyn Mariano

FBI's Carnivore: Gnawing at liberty?

...place than not." Southern California IT manager Steve Smith said he thought email surveillance should extend to the analogue world: "Not only does this not... Read more

12 July, 2000 by Matthew Rothenberg

Coop's Scoop: The week ahead, the week that was

...have removed the teeth from Carnivore's name, but its controversial online email surveillance system still has the same bite. The new name: DCS1000, referring... Read more

12 February, 2001 by Charles Cooper

FBI dumps Carnivore - but in name only

...online wolf in sheep's clothing, changing the name of its controversial email surveillance system -- known up until now as Carnivore. Carnivore now goes by... Read more

12 February, 2001 by Erich Luening

Programmers fight government with M-o-o-t OS

A team of cryptography experts plan to combat government email surveillance plans through a new super-secure operating system dubbed M-o... Read more

11 December, 2000 by Will Knight

FBI releases first Carnivore data

The FBI released the first documents about its controversial Carnivore email surveillance software on Tuesday, but more than half of the 750 pages... Read more

4 October, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Ex-NSA expert warns of concealed backdoors

...source solutions. According to Madsen, evidence of the FBI's controversial Carnivore email surveillance tool shows that NSA technology is finding its way into other... Read more

25 September, 2000 by Will Knight

Carnivore clone goes open source

...July introduced legislation that will require in this country to also employ email surveillance measures. It remains unclear precisely what the controversial Regulation of Investigatory... Read more

21 September, 2000 by Robert Lemos

Jane Wakefield: Anarchy in the UK

...latest convert to Net snooping with a cool £25m going on an email surveillance centre. Not to mention the expense of implementing the widely criticised... Read more

2 May, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

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