would not only capture messages you sent, it would capture messages that you wrote but never sent--things that perhaps you thought were a bad idea and deleted. This is the government using the Internet to get into people's houses and into their minds. ( PC world). The Magic Lantern technology, would allow investigators to secretly install over the Internet powerful eavesdropping software that records every keystroke on a person's computer, according to people familiar with the effort. While on the other hand, FBI’s Carnivore is a high-speed packet "sniffer" program developed by the FBI's Engineering Research Facility (ERF) to conduct electronic surveillance of e-mail and Internet communications. Carnivore is installed at an Internet Service Provider's (ISP's) facility to monitor selected transmissions. This spy tool provides law enforcement with access to the private communications of all subscribers of a particular service provider. It is this unique aspect of Carnivore that gives rise to fundamental privacy risks. (giga law legal controversy). This program can scan millions of emails per second in an effort to finds its target (Ashcrosft to appoint internet)The Patriotic Act loosens the rules for roving wiretaps, conferring broad authority to listen in on a suspect's communications. Under previous laws, officials had to specify certain phone lines they wanted to monitor, along with proof that their suspect used them. Federal authorities said that “the old rules were outdated, since many people have phone lines at home, a mobile phone, and Internet access at home, at work”. The act lets agents wiretap any phone line--again, without showing probable cause--and monitor everything on that line whether the suspect is using it or not. (PC world) There are a large number of problems with the FBI's use of a system like Carnivore and Magic lantern, and many Americans disagree on number of different points about it. First us...
