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PRK,
I don't remember the US code, but on my search that I made concerning a computer sale on ebay, I found the part that they were refering to. It has been there for over a year. I had a person trying to buy a laptop from a US address, their e-mail account was through an Iranian ISP, and the request was to ship to an address in the UAE.
Needless to say, I wasn't that interested in selling said laptop.
So as explained I don't find their explanation so unreasonable.
JMO
dave
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Your case seems to be quite a bit different than
this one. There was absolutely no indication that he was foreign, that the computer would be exported, and no foreign ISP involved.
So the only possible keys were the words "combat" and "firearms".
Now since they're not going to hand over their list of key words (that is, if it was THEIR list that triggered this), we'll have to imagine what [b]other[/b] two words might get you in trouble:
Fred's[b] Gun [/b]Shop in[b] Battle[/b] Creek, Michigan
[b]Fertilizer[/b], 10 pound bag for $7.50 at your local [b]Target[/b] store.
[b]Surplus[/b][b] Fuel Tank[/b] Sales (a triple), 945 Old Highway 40, Ft. Collins.
(made-up address)
Now that's assuming that it's only Dell, and their own internally generated list.
How are we to knowe that this was not sparked by a call from Ft.Meade? And that they're only looking at the customer names?
Carnivore has a pretty narrow focus, compared to some of the other technology in government hands. Pretty easy to snag & reassemble packets based on key words, too. Their real challenge is traffic management, which they can use algorithms for.
I'm actually very glad that this incident happened, to put some sunshine on things. We needed to know that they are doing this.