US Attorney General John Ashcroft has urged people to come
forward with any information about Tuesday’s horrific terrorist
attacks. For this purpose, the FBI has set up a web site where
people can report information, at www.ifccfbi.gov.
The FBI installed additional Carnivore monitoring equipment at
ISPs in the US within hours of yesterday’s terrorist attacks,
according to reports by Wired.com. Engineers at the ISPs spoke on
condition of anonymity to the news site, confirming that they were
co-operating with the requests.
Carnivore, recently renamed DCS1000, has been controversial.
ISPs in the US can be obliged to install the monitoring equipment
which allows the FBI to intercept all e-mail and internet traffic.
According to Wired, agents then periodically remove a hard drive
which stores all the data which the system was configured to
record.
