Is it true the FBI monitor users of P2P file-sharing sites such as Limewire and Filecroc?
When you say monitor, they are not recording everything you say and do in a big book somewhere, or have a Gene Hackman type bloke in a darkened room looking at your PC screen, but yes, The US and UK in particular monitor the majority of Internet traffic looking for indicators which suggests the users might be involved in nefarious activities. P2P sites are an easy way of passing information around, so it is logical that these will be more heavily monitored than say the Nick Jnr website. This work is done by software looking at millions of sections of content for key words, phrases and algorithms, which is then sorted into an escalation pyramid of potential interest. Getting to the first level will trigger an repeat sweep of the user(s) and site, and as the flagged item moves up the investigation gets more intense until eventually it gets pulled up by a human operative. If you manage to get to this stage you will be tracked and all activity reviewed for a period (5-14 days), and added t
