Impact of High-Profile Research Withdrawal on Carnivore Systems

Five groups of researchers have bowed out of the competition to evaluate the so-called Carnivore Internet surveillance system. And that likely will dash Justice Department hopes that a major university would validate its controversial eavesdropping device, participants said Tuesday.. . . Five groups of researchers have bowed out of the competition to evaluate the so-called Carnivore Internet surveillance system. And that likely will dash Justice Department hopes that a major university would validate its controversial eavesdropping device, participants said Tuesday.

Attorney General Janet Reno seemed confident Aug. 10 that one of several then-unnamed schools would take up the challenge of verifying that Carnivore, when properly used, would not violate the civil rights of individuals subject to its workings.

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