[blam]

"Taking the way back machine to the 1980’s I recall computers placed in England to track all communications in the USA. It was placed in Europe as opposed to the USA because we have the 4th amendment and they did not. I cannot recall the name of program."

Carnivore?

Echelon?

[null and void]

Echelon?

Carnivore?

Omnivore.

[DuncanWaring]

I think Carnivore and Echelon were both e-mail monitoring programs; e-mail was miniscule in the ‘80s.

Interestingly, I saw the 5-letter acronym for my college in the list of Carnivore keywords.