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From the Washington Post:
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Federal law enforcement authorities may soon expand the use of a controversial FBI monitoring system to capture e-mail and other text messages sent through wireless telephone carriers, as well as messages from their Internet service providers, according to a telecommunications industry group.
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quote:Now the the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association is warning that authorities could use Carnivore as soon as October to examine messages such as those sent by cellular telephones and other handheld devices. That's because the industry has been unable to come up with a way to give law enforcement agencies the ability to monitor digital communications as they can the more easily captured analog messages, as required by a 1994 law.
Not that privacy is by all means a guarantee to anyone who hooks up to a network with a few million other people, but it still sucks to see it hanging out there in the public eye, stripped and naked. Also interesting that law requires industry to drop its pants the way it does. And since I be from the states, anyone know how this system affects those not in the US?
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