At 3:57 PM -0500 11/29/00, David Honig wrote:
"Arthur Andersen's office in Vilnius has reportedly fallen victim to electronic surveillance operations. Following the discovery of suspicious equiptment in the office, Andersen called on the Lithuanian authorities to open an investigation into what it views as a case of economic espionage. Another firm highly active in the region, J. Kabasinka & Partners, is said to have also been subjected to similar surveillance"
Intelligence Newsletter 12 Oct 2000 p3 indigo-net.com [no affil.]
Also a notes that FBI now training NIPC in Carnivore use. "Previously the FBI had sworn NIPC was not engaged in law enforcement surveillance." p 5 same issue.
I don't know what "NIPC" means, but I thought at first you meant that NIPC was in Lithuania. Perhaps not. But the point is still interesting: recall that Louis Freeh and the other spook chiefs were making much about sending teams over to Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, etc. to teach them the essentials of creating a _modern_ police state. No doubt Carnivore is being deployed outside the U.S., and without a _fraction_ of the public discussiong being seen here. (BTW, there is little discussion of the commercial espionage aspects of Carnivore. I know that Intel must be thrilled at the prospect that a Carnivore box attached to some node that their traffic flows through will suck up all of _Intel's_ traffic. With luck, it will convince companies like Intel and Microsoft to much more widely deploy crypto for communications which might be intercepted by Carnivores.) --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)