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...problem is that the concept of "numbers dialed" doesn't really mean much on the Internet. The FBI and privacy advocates have been frantically searching for the best analogy: Are telephone numbers like IP addresses, such as 140.247.30.106, that are used only by computers and reveal relatively little? How about e-mail addresses, or URLs that describe what Web pages you frequent? Unfortunately, e-mail addresses and message content are stored in the same packets of data on the Net; access to one requires access to the other, and it should come as no surprise that the FBI is calling...
Worse, the government has no legal obligation to inform targets of a limited tap that they were watched until a case is brought to trial. Because the Carnivore system doesn't receive an IP address, Internet users can't detect if it were installed or whether they were targets. There are no checks or balances here: If the Carnivore system were violating legal limits and monitoring our activities, no one outside the FBI would know...
...prize awaits the dominant player in the voice-over IP business, in which voice is transmitted the same way as data--via the Net. Stealing a march on the competition, Cisco on Monday unveiled a new IP telephone that will allow corporations to use their data backbones for voice communication. Wireless networks loom as the next important phase of the Web. And then there's biotechnology, in which all these new systems are being applied to the natural sciences. And what about nanotechnology, with its tiny self-replicating machines? So, who will be the market-cap kings in 10 years...
...making spin-off, Lucent, and Canadian counterpart Nortel have built powerful, decades-long relationships with telephone companies and service providers. As voice and data networks converge--and data come to account for more than 90% of network traffic--Cisco has boasted that its networks, which are predominantly data or IP (Internet protocol) networks, will also become the leading voice networks...
Consumers, however, are still uneasy about IP telephone service. Do you really want your voice to be as unreliable as your Web connection? Cisco swears it has closed the gap and made its IP networks as reliable as voice networks. What would help, Cisco believes, is for consumers to come to believe in the Cisco brand to the point where they are exerting upward pressure on telephone companies and service providers to run Cisco networks. In other words, for Cisco to be able to apply a two-way squeeze from the corporate side and the consumer side so that your...