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Date: 2000-08-22
Carnivore und kein Ende-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Tsutomu Shimomura und andere] Interesse an der Architektur des Carnivore angemeldet, die gesetzlich ermächtigten Behörden suchen noch immer eine unabhängige Universiät, die den Datenfresser evaluieren soll. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- An eminent group of security experts has offered to undertake an independent review of the FBI's controversial Carnivore surveillance system. Attorney General Janet Reno said in early August that the Justice Department would commission a study of Carnivore from a major university, but she has not yet come to a final decision as to which institution she will recruit for this purpose. The ad-hoc association of 13 security experts, who have dubbed themselves the Open Carnivore group, includes individuals such as AT&T Research's Matt Blaze and Tom Perrine of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, both of whom testified before Congress about Carnivore in July. ... Justice Department spokesman Chris Watney said on Monday that officials were "still in the process of selecting a university to review Carnivore." News reports have suggested that researchers from MIT and Purdue University independently contacted the Justice Department and also offered to perform reviews. The government hopes a review will satisfy critics who say Carnivore violates the privacy of innocent Internet users. .... Other members of the Open Carnivore group include Peter Neumann of SRI International, "Mudge" of @stake, Tsutomu Shimomura, who helped track down convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick, and David Wagner of the University of California at Berkeley. ..... Privacy groups have said that, when installed at an Internet service provider, Carnivore could be programmed to snack on more traffic than it should. They also say that even if it works as described -- intercepting massive amounts of data and discarding what's not relevant -- Carnivore could violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. "Even the independent university review won't answer all the questions, because the reviewers won't know how the FBI has employed it in past investigations and will employ it in future investigations," says David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "They're going to be looking at a static piece of software... Mehr http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38329,00.html -.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2000-08-22 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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