Carnivore
Wednesday, May 29th, 2002The FBI’s Carnivore system has disrupted an anti-terror investigation, according to this press release from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Seems the system, designed for email surveillance, has a tendency to capture the email of people other than the court-authorized target of the surveillance. (This is precisely what the FBI has assured us would not happen with Carnivore). According to FBI records, the “FBI technical person was apparently so upset that he destroyed all the E-Mail take, including the take on [the authorized target].” In other words, the evidence was accidentally destroyed.
