Obama & His DOJ StormTroopers At It Again

[apple0154]

Carnivore was a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that was designed to monitor email and electronic communications.

It used a customizable packet sniffer that monitored all of a target user's Internet traffic.

The Carnivore system could be installed on a system either through the cooperation of the system owner, or by use of a court order. Carnivore was implemented during the Clinton administration with the approval of the Attorney General.

The Carnivore program was canceled, and replaced with improved commercial software such as NarusInsight.

Could something be developed for internet addresses like those pre-paid cell phones where no one knows who owns the phone? For example, let's say a person doesn't want to be linked to their email so could they have an IP address that can't be linked to them. Is that possible?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Impossible to access by anyone except the owner. In other words "John Smith's" mail is somewhere on the server but there is no file listed under that name. No one but John Smith knows he has mail on Yahoo or Google or any other email client.

That way the government couldn't search emails because they wouldn't know who had an account.

email systems don't work that way.
each user is going to be specifically identified, whether its encrypted or not. What the fed gov has, by law, is the keys to every encryption system authorized in the US. What they want to do is bypass that encryption and monitor all email traffic for certain code words. In order to do that, they would need access to everyones emails.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

Could something be developed for internet addresses like those pre-paid cell phones where no one knows who owns the phone? For example, let's say a person doesn't want to be linked to their email so could they have an IP address that can't be linked to them. Is that possible?

unfortunately no.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

Wrong, or right, the law is the law, until it's challenged and repealed/overturned on appeal etc.

Not resisted by armed force. Get it?

By that logic our entire country doesn't exist, since it was founded by armed force.

 

[Billy the Great Khan]

The American Revolution?

What's that got to do with Teabaggery?

What does this?