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Titolo: FBI screwed up, spied on entire email network

FBI screwed up, spied on entire email network
The FBI on Friday revealed that human error led to surveillance of an
entire email network back in 2006, rather than the single email address
approved by the secretive court which approves domestic wiretaps and other
forms of e-surveillance.
Although the alleged mistake came to light in an Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) Freedom of Information Act (FIA) lawsuit, the internet
service provider involved remains unpublished, due to the classified
nature of the work involved.
Back doors were built into the nation's telecommunications infrastructure
back in the mid-nineties which allow for almost immediate real-time
surveillance of phone conversations - cellular or otherwise - emails, and
other forms of electronic communications that pass through the networks of
the telecommunications industry.
The ISP involved allegedly misinterpreted a warrant for one email address
to be a warrant for - ahem - the entire network. This kind of mass
negligence is really only the flip-side of a surveillance system that
allows for almost immediate mass surveillance by the government and its
cronies in the telecommunications industry.
This latest controversy comes as President Bush continues to demand that
Congress provide retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies
involved with illegal warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, and is
sure to fan the flames of that ongoing debate. The simplistic
fear-mongering that has characterized the political animus of the present
administration is even less persuasive when measured against this level of
incompetence - after all, what good does Orwellian spying do if those
involved are too incompetent to get it right anyway?
One intelligence official shrugged it off. "It's inevitable that these
things will happen. It's not weekly, but it's common." This is the most
egregious case yet revealed of what is known as "overproduction" -
spook-speak for when a third party, for some reason, gives more
information than requested.
At least they got a warrant for this kerfuffle. The controversial
warrantless wiretapping program, which has led to gridlock in Congress for
the revised Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - the
administration has promised to veto it if retroactive immunity for
telecommunications companies is not included, while simultaneously
claiming that the act needs to be passed immediately in the interests of
national security - has had its own suspect "glitches". No one really
knows how many purely domestic communications were hoovered up by the
National Security Agency under the warrantless wiretapping program, and we
probably never will.
Cynics suspect retroactive immunity to be a preemptive strike, should
other, more secret, surveillance programs see the light of day. The FISA
court issued a rare rebuke to the FBI last year for submitting false
affidavits in support of its warrant applications, and other violations of
note include dragging out surveillance long past what has been approved or
seeking information beyond what had been authorized. Inasmuch as the FISA
court issues warrants retroactively - and, anyway, almost never denies an
FBI surveillance request - one wonders how, or why, they continue to screw
things up. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/fbi_email_surveillance/
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