FBI Quietly Forms Secretive Net-Surveillance Unit

An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from CNET: "CNET has learned that the FBI has formed a Domestic Communications Assistance Center, which is tasked with developing new electronic surveillance technologies, including intercepting Internet, wireless, and VoIP communications. 'The big question for me is why there isn't more transparency about what's going on?' asks Jennifer Lynch, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group in San Francisco. 'We should know more about the program and what the FBI is doing. Which carriers they're working with — which carriers they're having problems with. They're doing the best they can to avoid being transparent.'"

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Justice Department Budget request

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This appears to be the Justice department budget request for the project.

http://www.justice.gov/jmd/2012factsheets/docs/fy12-national-security.pdf

Time to spend more time improving Tor

https://www.torproject.org/