Re: More On Carnivore

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sat Aug 12 2000 - 08:10:04 MDT


"E. Shaun Russell" wrote:
>
> The Department of Justice just announced on Friday that it will be
> soliciting Carnivore to a major university for the purpose of a public
> review. The yet to be named university will have the ability to make any
> of its findings public, and can bring in any experts necessary to complete
> the study. Get the story at:
> http://www.extrodot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/12/0237245

Yeah. Who wants to bet that the aforementioned university will already
have many millions of research dollars coming from the feds, so they
would have an incentive to come up with the 'right' answers...???

Carnivore is gonna get toasted if it gets an impartial review. Just on
the fact it sifts through all email going through the server it is quite
unconstitutional...

-- 
TANSTAAFL
Mike Lorrey
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When
the
Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give
to
them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility,
then
Athens ceased to be free."  --- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
"A person who wants a society that is both safe and free, wants what
never 
has been, and what never will be."  --- Thomas Jefferson
"It's a Republic, if you can keep it..." --- Benjamin Franklin


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