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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III has urged Congress to enact a law making it illegal to “mistype, misspell, or obfuscate any word in the English language in an e-mail message”. According to Mueller, “poor spelling and typos are dramatically imparing the efforts of our brave automated Internet wiretapping technologies such as Carnivore. Carnivore can’t pick up every possible permutation or misspelling of a word. For example, it will miss ‘missle’, ‘bom’, ‘explosevs’, ‘nukular’ and ‘divice’. When we looked at the processing cost of soundexing every word and comparing soundex codes to our ‘triggers’, we realized it would be much easier to simply make misspelling illegal. This will certainly stop all the 31ite h@NO_SPAMx0rs from browsing for pr0n.” The directory also mentioned that he’d like to see legislation on criminalizing heavy Arabic accents over the telephone as well.