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Wiretapping the Internet

May 18, 2007

Electronic surveillance just got a lot easier. This week brought the deadline for all broadband internet providers to have built-in surveillance capabilities so that law enforcement can easily snoop on internet users. Kevin Poulsen, editor at Wired News, explains that as wiretapping gets easier it also become more common.

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