Commentary, essays, reports, and other documents

• Letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft
  (ACLU, CDT, EPIC, EFF, FCF & LEAA, May 2, 2001)
• The 2001 US Big Brother Awards
  (Privacy International, March 7, 2001)
• Independent Technical Review of the Carnivore System: Final Report
  (IIT Research Institute, with redactions by U.S. Department of Justice; submitted December 8, 2000, released December 14, 2000) (4.5 MB PDF)
• Quick and Dirty
  (Computerworld, December 11, 2000)
• Toothless
  (Suck.com, December 4, 2000)
• Comments on the Carnivore System Technical Review + +
  (Bellovin, Blaze, Farber, Neumann & Spafford, December 3, 2000)
• ACLU Comments Regarding Carnivore Review Team Draft Report
  (December 1, 2000)
• EPIC Comments on IITRI Draft Report
  (Electronic Privacy Information Center, December 1, 2000)
• Privacy Foundation Comments on IITRI Draft Report
  (Privacy Foundation, December 1, 2000)
• FBI Press Release on IITRI Draft Report
  (Dr. Donald M. Kerr, FBI Laboratory Division, November 21, 2000)
• Independent Technical Review of the Carnivore System: Draft Report +
  (IIT Research Institute, with redactions by U.S. Department of Justice; submitted November 17, 2000, released November 21, 2000)
  Note:  The above link is to an introductory page that links to the report, which is a 9 MB PDF file.
• Commentary: Don't Click the Panic Button over Carnivore
  (Gartner Group/CNET News.com, November 17, 2000)
• Letter on the Carnivore Review (to Attorney General Janet Reno)
  (Rep. Dick Armey, October 19, 2000)
• While Americans Fear Government Privacy Abuses, DOJ Proceeds with Carnivore 2.0
  (Rep. Dick Armey, October 16, 2000)
• ACLU Says Government Stacked Deck in Selection of Team to Review "Carnivore" Cyber-tapping System
  (ACLU Press Release, October 4, 2000)
• Opinion Forum -- Our View: Justice Department's Pick Compromises Effort to Detect Privacy Violations
  (USA Today, October 4, 2000)
• Opinion Forum -- Opposing View: Illinois Institute Has a Good Reputation for Independent Reviews
  (USA Today, October 4, 2000)
• Tapping, Tapping on My Network Door
  (Communications of the ACM, October 2000)
• The Legal Standard for Government Tracing of Internet Communications: The Misuse of Pen Register Court Orders for Real-Time Acquisition of Transactional Information (PDF) (summary)
  (Commercial Internet eXchange Association, October 2000)
• Feds' Carnivore Proposal Reveals Secret Names
  (Cluebot.com, September 27, 2000)
• Carnivore Review Proposal Unmasked
  (Cryptome, September 27, 2000)
• Justice Department Hires Carnivore Auditors
  (Cluebot.com, September 26, 2000)
• Carnivore FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  (Robert Graham, version 0.1, September 7, 2000)
• PFIR Statement on Government Interception of Internet Data
  (People for Internet Responsibility, September 7, 2000)
• Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5018, H.R. 4987, and H.R. 4908
  (House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, September 6, 2000)
• FBI's Carnivore Highlights the Need for Public-Source Review, Strong Encryption
  (InfoWorld, August 21, 2000)
• Editorial: A Bite Out of Carnivore
  (Washington Post, August 19, 2000)
• The Danger of Carnivore
  (Free Congress Foundation, August 15, 2000)
• Commentary: How to Tame a Carnivore
  (Gartner Group/CNET News.com, August 3, 2000)
• Who's Afraid of Carnivore? Not Me!
  (Infowarrior.org, August 2, 2000)
• Stop Carnivore (to Attorney General Janet Reno)
  (Rep. Dick Armey et al., July 27, 2000)
• The "Carnivore" System is Devouring Our Liberties Faster Than We Can Protect Them
  (Free Congress Foundation, July 25, 2000)
• Oversight Hearing: "Fourth Amendment Issues Raised by the FBI's 'Carnivore' Program"
  (House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, July 24, 2000)
• Congress Agrees to Hold Hearing on Monday in Response to Public Outrage over FBI's E-Mail Spy Scheme
  (Libertarian Party Action Alert, July 22, 2000)
• I-Spy: Critics Blast Cyber Snooping Device
  (About.com, July 13, 2000)
• Oversight Hearing: The Fourth Amendment and the Internet
  (House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution, April 6, 2000)
• Carnivore: FBI Launches Email Drift Net
  (Disinformation)