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FedScope v1.0 Released Today

Posted by Hemos on from the know-your-rights dept.

Keith writes "FedScope Development announced today that it has released a free, open-source program called FedScope v1.0 that designed to log and analyze visits from government agencies. FedScope provides the site owner with detailed statistics on previous visits, and prints the last visit to webpages as specified by the website owner. More info at http://www.fedscope.com."

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  1. next version? by Vodak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we need BigBusinessScope. =]

  2. Kind of silly by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I mean, cute idea, but if the Fed really honestly wanted to check you out and stay private, they could quite happily go through a private provider -- same as the RIAA doesn't spam P2P from riaa.org addresses.

    What you're most likely to get is people surfing on their lunch breaks.

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  3. Re:Not released today by theCoder · · Score: 5, Informative

    What web page are you looking at? According to http://www.fedscope.com/index.php: "FedScope v1 was released on October 6th, 2002". Last time I checked, that is today.

    Glad I checked the source before moderating this post as Informative. Too bad more moderators don't do the same.

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