FC: FBI reportedly wants to concentrate traffic, tap entire Internet

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 22:19:36 PDT

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    http://www.interactiveweek.com/article/0,3658,s%3D605%26a%253D16678,00.asp
    
    October 18, 2001
    Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps
    By Max Smetannikov
    
    Expect the FBI to expand its Internet wiretapping program, says a source 
    familiar with the plan.
    
    Stewart Baker, a partner with law firm Steptoe & Johnson, is a former 
    general counsel to the National Security Agency. He says the FBI has spent 
    the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture that would 
    concentrate Internet traffic in several key locations where all packets, 
    not just e-mail, could be wiretapped.  It is now planning to begin 
    implementing this architecture using the powers it has under existing 
    wiretapping laws.
    
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