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FBI turns to broad new wiretap method(New Method works like a vacuum)
ZD Net ^ | January 30, 2007 | Declan McCullagh

Posted on 06/18/2013 5:23:09 PM PDT by Vendome

Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach. It's employed when police have obtained a court order and an Internet service provider can't "isolate the particular person or IP address" because of technical constraints, says Paul Ohm, a former trial attorney at the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. (An Internet Protocol address is a series of digits that can identify an individual computer.)

That kind of full-pipe surveillance can record all Internet traffic, including Web browsing--or, optionally, only certain subsets such as all e-mail messages flowing through the network. Interception typically takes place inside an Internet provider's network at the junction point of a router or network switch.


(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 4th; amendment; infringed; your
"What they're doing is even worse than Carnivore," said Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who attended the Stanford event. "What they're doing is intercepting everyone and then choosing their targets."

It's transparent all right.

http://www.zdnet.com/news/fbi-turns-to-broad-new-wiretap-method/151059

1 posted on 06/18/2013 5:23:09 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

It must really suck!


2 posted on 06/18/2013 5:25:52 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (A bad hair day is not a mental issue, or is it?)
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To: Vendome

It works like a vacuum.

Translation:

It REALLY SUCKS!


3 posted on 06/18/2013 5:26:37 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: ThomasThomas; null and void

Blows


4 posted on 06/18/2013 5:41:55 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome
Looks like the perfect answer to my cell phone communications--they suck, too. Heck, I don't get every word.
5 posted on 06/18/2013 5:43:00 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Vendome

If it sucks and blow at the same time it is a jet engine.


6 posted on 06/18/2013 5:47:20 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (A bad hair day is not a mental issue, or is it?)
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To: ThomasThomas

Nice.

Ramjet...


7 posted on 06/18/2013 5:48:37 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Smokin' Joe

LOL

Freepers is funkneeze...


8 posted on 06/18/2013 5:49:08 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

TCP port 80?


9 posted on 06/18/2013 6:21:51 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Vendome

Privacy? We don’t need no steenking privacy!


10 posted on 06/18/2013 6:34:04 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: lepton

UDP ports 5060

Good one though


11 posted on 06/18/2013 6:37:43 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

They’re listening.


12 posted on 06/18/2013 6:53:52 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Vendome
A 6-minute YouTube video about the loss of freedom in America.


13 posted on 06/19/2013 5:45:19 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Vendome

Oh, you mean the voice call...


14 posted on 06/19/2013 6:10:05 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Travis McGee

Beautiful Trav


15 posted on 06/19/2013 8:20:45 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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