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Federal Police Monitoring Web After Attack

Wired news reports that federal police have stepped-up surveillance of the Internet after devastating terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. FBI agents approached a major network service provider with the Carnivore system and requested to install the monitoring device. Also, the Hotmail web-based e-mail service is providing information about specific accounts under suspicion.

Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore, Wired, September 12, 2001.