[IP] F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: EEkid@aol.com [EEkid@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:56 AM
To: dfarber@cs.cmu.edu; David Farber
Subject: F.B.I. Gained Unauthorized Access to E-Mail

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/washington/17fisa.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1203342758-D3/2s0YtfwnMQ0ZcvyGEbA


" A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.

F.B.I. officials blamed an “apparent miscommunication” with the unnamed Internet provider, which mistakenly turned over all the e-mail from a small e-mail domain for which it served as host. The records were ultimately destroyed, officials said...."



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