Alan Todd , CEO of Knowledge Planet, says the news out of MIT can only increase demand for the e-learning software his company sells to businesses, which use it to get content from top universities.
"Although the FBI is legally forbidden from monitoring the communications of citizens who are not targets under Carnivore, the mere knowledge that government agents have the technical capacity to read e-mail messages will greatly increase the uncertainty of innocent citizens, " argued Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at Georgetown University.