Googol?

Steven.Cohen at rivkin.com Steven.Cohen at rivkin.com
Thu Jan 10 13:19:20 EST 2002


Hi all,

Have you guys seen this yet? 

http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/3.html - Search 5 Years of Instant 
Messenger Logs - "In November of 2001 AOL Time Warner, responding to a subpoena from 
Attorney General John Ashcroft, made available to the Justice Department a 
complete archive of all private conversations held over AOL Instant 
Messenger (AIM). Through the power of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Googol was able to obtain a copy of this entire logfile, totaling over 
2 terabytes of conversations previously thought to be private. This unique resource provides insight into the minds of potential anti-American terrorists, 
cheating spouses, and countless computer neophytes."

http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/aimsearch - The search engine is here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/23610.html - an article about the 
whole thing.

It would have been funnier if the results were not "canned"
Steven Cohen
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