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             A law was passed, USA-PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism), which helps law enforcement fight terrorism. But this law also gives them the right to tap your telephone system, wiretapping with software called Carnivore; it's installed on an Internet Service Provider (ISP), such as AOL, in order to monitor the e-mail and Web-browsing habits of a suspect under surveillance. This tool could be easily used to tap into any normal citizen. .
             Such wiretapping and unlawful invasion of privacy is what has been going on for years with the hackers, and this was considered illegal by the US government. But in the name of national security, it has been deemed legal to permit law enforcement to tap into our conversation, screen our private email, and monitor our use of the internet. .
             There are several current issues have risen interest within the hacker community over the past few years. Chief among those is the changing face of the Internet. Originally funded and developed with public money, the Internet has grown into an omnipresent figure in nearly all developed countries. This rapid growth in popularity over the past eight years peaked the interest of corporations who wish to take advantage of this medium in order to generate profit. In an interview with the Boston Phoenix in 1999, Noam Chomsky had this to say in the struggle to define the Internet: .
             [The Internet] was paid for by the public. How undemocratic can you get? Here is a major instrument, developed by the public - first part of the Pentagon, and then universities and the National Science Foundation - handed over in some manner that nobody knows to private corporations who want to turn it into an instrument of control. They want to turn it into a home shopping center. You know, where it will help them convert you into the kind of person they want. Why give them a powerful weapon to turn you into that kind of person, especially after you paid for the weapon? (Lane).


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