On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:04:27PM +1300, David Katz wrote:
One just needs to look at the US and the whole fiasco that Carnivore has created to find out that this will be much more difficult than it appears... ;)
I get the feeling that the "fiasco" there is mainly anti-government rhetoric, and very little in the way of hard fact. The FBI are permitted to intercept data transmissions across the internet with a search warrant; carnivore is simply an elaborate passive traffic monitoring device that they have written for that purpose. The main complaints against Carnivore seem to be based on insinuations that the FBI are in the habit of deploying it without a court order, or use it to capture more data than corresponding court orders instruct them to. So if there is an issue, it's with the ethics of the FBI rather than Carnivore per se. The run-through of Carnivore at NANOG 20 in DC was instructive. There are video archives on the web in various places; ask Google. Joe [enough trigger words in there to get this message intercepted as it wings its way from Canada to NZ through the US, I should hope :)] --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog