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Grex > Agora35 > #49: FBI releases 'redacted' accepted proposal for "Carnivore" review. | |
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bdh3
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FBI releases 'redacted' accepted proposal for "Carnivore" review.
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Oct 3 04:53 UTC 2000 |
For those of you unaware, the FBI has a 'system' -based on Windoze-NT
(first mistake)- that monitors an ISP's email stream and captures email
to and from a target of a wiretap warrant. Under somewhat of a 'cloud'
it agreed to academic review of the product. It released a 'redacted'
version of the final accepted proposal with the names, addresses, phone
numbers, etc. of the reviewers 'blacked out' as a PDF file. Well, I
dunno how exactly they managed to do it, but they didn't do it correctly
and shortly thereafter there were 'unredacted' versions out 'on the net'
complete with full info on the reviewers - seems the PDF document
contains the full info and then overwrites it...
Uh, huh. These guys wanna be in charge of security and investigation on
the 'Net....
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jagdxb
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response 1 of 14:
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Oct 3 08:40 UTC 2000 |
forget
help
q
quit
quit
exit
quit at the start of a line
q
p
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bdh3
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response 2 of 14:
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Oct 3 09:00 UTC 2000 |
An FBI agent...
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brighn
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response 3 of 14:
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Oct 3 14:22 UTC 2000 |
My personal vfavorite was "quit at the start of a line"
Talk about following direction explicitly.
So should we have a discussion about #0, or does it really deserve additional
comment? The FBI obviously still has some kinks to work out in the
Intelligence department (with or without the capital i).
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jazz
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response 4 of 14:
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Oct 3 14:25 UTC 2000 |
Esh-a-lon.
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danr
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response 5 of 14:
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Oct 3 15:37 UTC 2000 |
If not the FBI, then who?
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mcnally
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response 6 of 14:
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Oct 4 20:49 UTC 2000 |
re #5: Why anyone?
re #0: Also worth mentioning are the fact that all of the high-profile
national-reputation universities that the FBI approached with their review
proposal refused to participate because of the proposal requirement that
the FBI be allowed to edit the final review between submission and
publication, and that the team that wound up with the review assignment
come from an institution that does a lot of defense research (it's a
research lab affiliated with IIT) and individual team members seem to have
a long history of government-sponsored research. (Which doesn't necessarily
mean they're biased, but it does call into question the objectivity of the
review process..)
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keesan
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response 7 of 14:
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Oct 5 00:12 UTC 2000 |
Wasn't it supposed to be 'type . at the start of a line'?
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gull
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response 8 of 14:
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Oct 6 23:04 UTC 2000 |
#4 is the answer to #5.
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wyrefall
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response 9 of 14:
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Oct 7 04:27 UTC 2000 |
I think the government has become dangerously silly in this respect...
And their interfering with my life (something unabidable). Now, most of my
friends either don't talk about things (as trivial as flight plans), or try
to use complex code-sets. This severely damages the quality of my
conversations, and that pisses me off.
er, their=they're
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bdh3
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response 10 of 14:
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Oct 7 06:24 UTC 2000 |
Welcome to the Matrix.
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mikep
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response 11 of 14:
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Oct 9 00:48 UTC 2000 |
And to think that Hillary wanted to put the entire US healthcare system under
government control...
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mcnally
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response 12 of 14:
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Oct 9 21:15 UTC 2000 |
Actually, it's far worse than that -- the conspiracy goes all the way up
to the aliens in Area 51.. *They're* the ones who would have been in charge
of deciding whether you could get a referral to a "specialist" (if you know
what I mean..)
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drew
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response 13 of 14:
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Oct 9 23:50 UTC 2000 |
Arf! Arf! Arf!
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bogman
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response 14 of 14:
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Nov 3 15:55 UTC 2000 |
The aliens probaly let the FBI do something that stupid just to show that they
aren't controling the government.
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