e of such kind of tools are Unconstitutional. The Constitution is largely a document of limits- limits on the ways in which Government may interfere with our lives. The Bill of Rights is a short list of specific aspects of our lives, which Government may not interfere. The 4th Amendment clearly prohibits such sweeping invasions of privacy and property as Carnivore and magic lantern commits.The best thing about the Internet, the thing which has allowed it to prosper as much as it has, is lack of centralized control. An while there are those who would use this lack of control to their criminal advantage, it would be a far worse consequence to give up the "chaos" in favor of stringent control. All of the wondrous possibilities that the Internet offers us come at the price of it having no central control or governing body. To impose that type of control will be at the expense of the freedoms, which have made the Internet what it is today. For 30 years, Government control stifled and suppressed the growth of the Internet. We must not allow such a fate to be reinstated.Moreover, it sets a bad precedent.What if the FBI said they wanted to monitor all telephone calls, for information about suspected criminals? What if they wanted to intercept all postal mail, to check and see if any of it was related to any of their suspects? What if they wanted to do a "profile" of the average marijuana user, by scanning huge amounts of electronic data, and compiling the marijuana-related communications? What if they wanted keys to everyone's houses, in case they had to get inside to investigate a crime? Use of the Carnivore and magic lantern system plants the seeds for all of those types of developments, and many more frightening ones.Another reason is that it will harm Innocent people. The FBI can hardly be trusted to conduct their investigations with proper handling and precision, but even if they could, Magic lantern and Carnivore will end up hurting innoc...
