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

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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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