30 August 2007

Digital Storm

Technology kisses up to law enforcement.
-- WASHINGTON -- The FBI disclosed new details about its secretive technology for tracing telephone calls and recording conversations during criminal, terror and espionage investigations, custom-made tools it has developed without fanfare for a decade.
Of course, they didn't disclose any of this, out of the goodness of their hearts.
The FBI was forced by a federal judge to give the files to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based civil liberties group, which requested them under the Freedom of Information Act more than a year ago.
Truly a double-edged sword.

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