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              | Date: 2001-09-12 
 
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 Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore
 By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
 2:00 a.m. Sep. 12, 2001 PDT
 
 WASHINGTON -- Federal police are reportedly increasing Internet
 surveillance after Tuesday's deadly attacks on the World Trade Center
 and the Pentagon.
 
 Just hours after three airplanes smashed into the buildings in what
 some U.S. legislators have dubbed a second Pearl Harbor, FBI agents
 began to visit Web-based, e-mail firms and network providers,
 according to engineers at those companies who spoke on condition of
 anonymity.
 
 An administrator at one major network service provider said that FBI
 agents showed up at his workplace on Tuesday "with a couple of
 Carnivores, requesting permission to place them in our core, along
 with offers to actually pay for circuits and costs."
 [...]
 
 Microsoft's Hotmail service has also been the target of increased
 federal attention, according to an engineer who works there.
 "Hotmail officials have been receiving calls from the San Francisco
 FBI office since mid-(Tuesday) morning and are cooperating with their
 expedited requests for information about a few specific accounts," the
 person said. "Most of the account names start with the word 'Allah'
 and contain messages in Arabic."
 [...]
 
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 published on: 2001-09-12
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