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Article: Ask your ISP about Carnivore.(software by the FBI to monitor Internet use)(Brief Article)
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- Consumer Comments
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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It has been revealed that the FBI has a system appropriately called "Carnivore" which the Bureau goes around installing in the networks of internet service providers (ISPs) under the rubric of a court order. "Carnivore" is a specialized computer developed by the FBI and equipped with software that "digests" all Internet traffic on an ISP system, and supposedly only provides the FBI with information for which they have a court order for. The only assurance we have for this, of course, is the word of the FBI -- which is notoriously unreliable. Source code for and access to Carnivore is reportedly denied to ISPs by the FBI. Hence, the FBI could play all kinds of games with ...
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