FBI Accidentally Received Unauthorized E-Mail Access

AmishElvis writes "The New York Times reports that 'glitch' gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network. A hundred or more accounts may have been accessed, rather than 'the lone e-mail address' that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation. The episode was disclosed as part of a new batch of internal documents that the F.B.I. turned over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit the group has brought."

Comments

Re:Trust the FBI?

[Frosty Piss]

At no time did they overstep their bounds

You know this to be so? Or you blindly accept the word of the FBI that it is so? Which is it?

Re:Trust the FBI?

[Orion Blastar]

What can you expect from overzealous left-wingers who scream "Impeach Bush" louder than anyone and refuse to read original articles like that one, and just adlib and pretend to have read them?

It was a mistake by the ISP, not the FBI. The FBI noticed the mistake and told the ISP how they had errored.

I mean if they really want to get upset, get mad at Bill Clinton for approving that Carnivore project instead of vetoing it for the FBI so ISPs can keep track of email and send copies to the FBI in the first place. That is what started the whole warrentless wiretapping of emails and Internet surfing in the first place and lead to the commercial version of Carnivore which is what we call spyware now.