I must say that I'm a bit suprised by this. It's hard to believe that any company in the U.S. would actually stand on principles. Kudos to Earthlink in this case. On Wednesday 19 September 2001 04:45 am, mean-green@hushmail.com wrote:

EarthLink rejects FBI's request to install Carnivore

ATLANTA -- Less than 24 hours after last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, FBI agents visited executives in EarthLink's Atlanta headquarters. The agents, subpoenas in hand, wanted EarthLink personnel to install the FBI's controversial tracking software -- called Carnivore -- on the networks the company uses to connect customers to the Internet. The agents were looking for electronic clues, trying to retrace suspected terrorists' steps in cyberspace.

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