-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Remy C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "endsecrecy list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [endsecrecy] Carnivore Update Date: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:46 PM -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9068/11/_/1335/_/969641176/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> From: SHnSASSY1 @aol.com Subject: [SO] *UPDATE: Carnivore Independent Review Goes Awry? (Cosmiverse) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 UPDATE: Carnivore Independent Review Goes Awry? September 18, 2000 http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal091801.html When the FBI announced its new Internet security initiative earlier this summer, the federal top-cop agency likely thought it would be welcome in an e-community alarmed by hack attacks and security breaches. Instead, privacy advocates have been waging war with the agency, alleging that the ISP-based program will be overly invasive and expose e-mail and other electronic data communications to the scrutiny of the government. The name of the program doesn't help. The FBI calls it "Carnivore," creating an image of a voracious, data-sweeping operation that will sweep up the innocent along with the criminal. The FBI has maintained that Carnivore is nothing more than an updated (albeit sophisticated), digital-age law enforcement tool that will be used only with judicially approved criminal warrants against targeted individuals suspected of illegal activity from organized crime to terrorism and hacking. No different, says the agency, than wiretaps. Not so, says the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the agency for all the planning documents for Carnivore, a request that was approved by the U.S. District Court. In August, the group objected to what it called an unacceptable schedule for the release of some 3,000 Carnivore-related documents, not scheduled to begin for 45 days. U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno argued the schedule was justifiable because of proprietary technology provided by FBI vendors, and announced in mid-August that she would convene an independent, technical review panel of security experts from a "major university" to review the FBI's disclosure plan. (Cosmiverse, Aug. 24, 2000). Now comes a report from Fox News Service that virtually all of the universities Reno has sought for the review panel have refused to become involved, "saying that doing so would make them little more than shills for the Justice Department," said Fox. "They [the Justice Department] were not looking for an independent review," said Jeffrey Schiller, a security expert and network manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "In essence, what they wanted to do was borrow the reputation of any institution doing the review," Fox reports. Similar responses were received from the University of California, as well as a number of other unnamed universities. "Schiller said the fine print in the DOJ's request for review would place numerous unacceptable restraints on the process, including giving the department the right to read, edit and even junk the report before the public saw it," reported Fox, while Reno said the Justice Department's intent is to make a full report public. Even so, said DOJ spokeswoman Chris Watney earlier this month, "scholars had sent multiple proposals by the Sept. 6 deadline, although she would not say how many. She also would not say which schools applied. The DOJ plans to award a contract to build the Carnivore system by September 25," said Fox. The panel's draft report is due in November, with a final report due by mid-December--some 45 days later than the schedule privacy advocates said was too slow in August. 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