Email Security Firms Take Action Against FBI's Carnivore Surveillance

... in the aftermath of the FBI's recently revealed Carnivore email surveillance system, email security companies are hoping they can convince average email users to seal their electronic envelopes -- and finally propel email encryption into a broader market. "We're seeing . . . ... in the aftermath of the FBI's recently revealed Carnivore email surveillance system, email security companies are hoping they can convince average email users to seal their electronic envelopes -- and finally propel email encryption into a broader market. "We're seeing Carnivore pop up and become a real threat to people's privacy and saying, 'Wait a second -- we could take this product Mithril, our secure server product, re-brand it and put it out there," said Sean Steele, director of business development at security firm ChainMail.

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