CDR: Re: Arthur Anderson black-bagged, NIPC now spooking

[Tim May]

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
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