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Carnivore, a system that has already been used in more than 20 cases, is designed for such limited taps. Run on a standard PC installed on the network of an Internet service provider (ISP), Carnivore receives a copy of every data packet and picks out, in real time, incoming and outgoing e-mail addresses or Web requests for a given user. As a result, the government has argued that the system poses no threat to civil liberties--its strength is not in widespread surveillance, but in recording addressing information equivalent to the numbers dialed on a telephone...
...does get the ability to search e-mail addresses under the lesser standard of protection, the consequences could be severe. By claiming that certain information is relevant to an investigation, the government could get a court order to install a box on a network with access to every packet that passes through. The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy advocates have called for the FBI to open the Carnivore source code to the public, and the FBI has recruited a university to investigate the program, but neither plan represents a real solution: Seeing the source code to one version...
...brought the country to chaos. Ever since, charges of torture, fraud in last April's presidential election, and gunrunning have been leveled against SIN. They culminated two weeks ago with the broadcast of a videotape, apparently leaked from Montesinos' headquarters, showing the spy chief handing over a thick packet of cash to persuade an opposition legislator to switch his allegiance to Fujimori, which...
Trollinger said that Harvard would have a place in the vice-presidential debate's media packet, mentioned as the loser of a 1921 football contest again Centre--considered a huge upset at the time...
...curriculums in managing pain and other symptoms of the dying. The subjects are difficult to teach because most professors don't know the material, and most textbooks say little about end-of-life care. It wasn't until 1997 that the American Medical Association began developing a continuing-education packet for doctors on the subject. The group that accredits hospitals began requiring them to implement pain-management plans only this year. "In the past few years, we have seen a sea change of improvements in the issue," says Foley, "but we've known how to do this since...