Like they'd tell you.
;)
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Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 2:06 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: FW: FBI pushes Carnivore on network providers after attacks
Thought that everybody might want to know what the FBI was
up to after this:
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From: Declan McCullagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 10:17 AM
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Subject: FC: FBI pushes Carnivore on network providers after attacks
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46747,00.html
Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore
By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2:00 a.m. Sep. 12, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Federal police are reportedly increasing Internet
surveillance after Tuesday's deadly attacks on the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon.
Just hours after three airplanes smashed into the buildings in what
some U.S. legislators have dubbed a second Pearl Harbor, FBI agents
began to visit Web-based, e-mail firms and network providers,
according to engineers at those companies who spoke on condition of
anonymity.
An administrator at one major network service provider said that FBI
agents showed up at his workplace on Tuesday "with a couple of
Carnivores, requesting permission to place them in our core, along
with offers to actually pay for circuits and costs."
The person declined to say for publication what the provider's response was,
"but a lot of people" at other firms were quietly going along with the FBI's
request. "I know that they are getting a lot of 'OKs' because they made it a
point to mention that they would only be covering our core for a few days,
while their 'main boxes were being set up at the Tier 1 carriers' -- scary,"
the engineer said.
[...]
Microsoft's Hotmail service has also been the target of increased
federal attention, according to an engineer who works there.
"Hotmail officials have been receiving calls from the San Francisco
FBI office since mid-(Tuesday) morning and are cooperating with their
expedited requests for information about a few specific accounts," the
person said. "Most of the account names start with the word 'Allah'
and contain messages in Arabic."
[...]
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