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.