Mr. LEONARD NIMOY (Actor): (As Mr. Spock) I've been monitoring your communications with Starfleet Command, Captain.

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On top of this is all the information from radars, satellites, radios and the monitoring of communications.

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"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.

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