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A day has passed, and you are still alive! All! News: From now on, the fight against cybercrime is among the FBI's top ten priorities. May 29, US Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller announced plans for further reorganization of his department. Should It should be especially noted that among the top ten priority areas of the FBI's work, along with anti-terrorist activities and the fight against corruption now includes the fight against high-tech crimes and protecting the US from cyber attacks. The plan also includes improvements technical base of the FBI to more successfully carry out its missions. As ZDNet reports, Mueller believes that by preventing hi-tech crimes, the FBI protects the entire country's infrastructure, and that Cyberterrorism and cybercrime can happen anywhere, and that an agency like the FBI is forced to undertake comprehensive responsibility in this area as well. Let us recall that in early April Mueller appointed newly minted FBI cyber unit Larry Mefford. It is characteristic that Before his new appointment, Mefford specialized in combating terrorism. Copyright (C) www.Compulenta.ru Carnivore's work upsets the FBI Information center on the security of personal information in Internet (Electronic Privacy Information Center) reported thata long-running FBI anti-terrorism investigation, perhaps even concerning Osama Bin Laden, was under threat due to technology ethical problems in the notorious Internet monitoring system Carnivore. According to EPIC, according to the court order, the Center was provided some FBI documentation regarding the incident, happened in March 2000. Then, as is clear from the obtained EPIC documents, FBI agents discovered that Carnivore was intercepting messages not only those persons whose surveillance was authorized by the court, but also many people completely uninvolved in the investigation. In an internal note The FBI said that when this was discovered, "FBI technician apparently so upset that he liquidated all the intercepted messages, including those belonging to the suspects." The surveillance was conducted by the FBI's International Terrorism Unit, and specifically, its division "OBL" (specially formed for investigation into the activities of Osama Bin Laden). Documents clearly demonstrate deep dissatisfaction with the FBI system Carnivore, especially with his passion to “grab” everything, thus violating legislation on the privacy of personal information. EPIC triumphs: they have been fighting Carnivore since the very momentwhen information about the system became public. Mined by documents to the court, according to representatives of the Center, convincingly prove that Carnivore, although powerful, is not well thought out system. In fact, an independent examination carried out The US Department of Justice showed the same thing. The FBI was recommended make technological changes to Carnivore, but neither the Ministry of Justice nor the Bureau it was never announced whether any upgrades to the system were carried out. So now EPIC is insisting that Carnivore's work be terminated until all circumstances are clarified. All FBI documentation obtained by EPIC is available here. Copyright (C) www.Compulenta.ru ZXNet: 500:8462/1 ~/ <~ http://zx.fatal.ru/ Fido: 2:5057/21.93 /_ _> SkyNet: 71:170/21