I was looking for more information on cyberterrorism in CIAO and I found this article rather interesting.
The title of the article is FBI Press Room - Congressional Statement - Carnivore Diagnostic Tool. This statement was made in year 2000.
According to the article, the FBI was proposing for a system called Carnivore as an electronic surveillance over cyber realm. The FBI admitted that one of the biggest threat to the country is the internet as it has been used not only for good purposes but evil purposes as well.
Also, the FBI had also identified other criminal activities that is constantly being carried out using the internet such as espionage, information warfare, child pornography and sexual exploitation of children and fraud.
The Carnivore is a filtering tool deployed by the FBI to carefully, precisely and lawfully conduct electronic surveillance of electronic communication occurring in computer networks. It is a very sophisticated system which would be able to "sniff" out unusual activities that mainly involves criminal intention. It is also done by a machine therefore the filtration process would not be seen by any FBI personnel unless the FBI had obtained Court order for further action once a criminal activity has been identified.
The FBI had identified that acts of terrorism could be carried out through the internet and as a fact, the convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef stored detailed plans of destroying US Airliners in an encrypted file in his laptop. Also had been reported that other terrorist groups engaged in attacks on foreign government websites and email servers. The FBI acknowledges the seriousness of the internet being used as a proxy to carry out terrorism acts by the extremists.
For the public who are worried or afraid of invasion of privacy, the FBI assured that they have been complying with the Federal Electronic Surveillance Laws which the Congress first enacted since 1968. Also to further assure the public, every investigations involving electronic surveillance done by the FBI are approved, monitored and overseen every step by the US Attorney's Office and the appropriate US District Court Judge or Magistrate. Therefore the public need not worry about illegal FBI wiretapping.
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