Deborah Pierce
Staff Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation

"It seems like what they're doing is scanning not only the target e-mail,but every piece of e-mail that's going through the ISP. And that is far beyond what their mandate is, with regard to the wiretap laws."

Ari Schwartz
Policy Analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology

"The black box really does make a difference ... There's the larger issue of the ISPs being able to control their own systems. When you're putting in a black box, the ISPs don't know what's going on. That's why Earthlink has refused to install Carnivore, and why other ISPs are probably going to follow their lead."

Barry Steinhardt
Associate Director of the ACLU
Chair of the ACLU Cyber-liberties Task Force

"We know from past experience that the FBI has very expansive views about what they are entitled to, far more than, in fact, the law provides. We really shouldn't be in the position of 'Trust us, we're the government.' We really need to know not only what's going into Carnivore, but what's coming out."