FBI retires its Carnivore

FBI retires its Carnivore
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2005-01-14

FBI surveillance experts have put their once-controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance tool out to pasture, preferring instead to use commercial products to eavesdrop on network traffic, according to documents released Friday.

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Carnivore, Schmarnivore 2005-01-18
Andy Wood (1 replies)

Who needs carnivore with dsniff. Nothing like violating the 1986 comm privacy act!...

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Re: Carnivore, Schmarnivore 2006-03-13
Anonymous

You should be thinking outside of the box and not so focused on a minor tool such a dsniff.

Carnivore, Magic Lantern, etc etc can all be found by searching the net. You can also find what "Hardware" is being used by them now. Heck if you google right you can find info on the CIA.

Think of Eey...

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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-18
Anonymous (2 replies)

These are my thoughts. The US Government has changed quite a bit recently. There are a lot of people out there who do not like the use, or even the existance of Carnivore. My first question, do you think the post 9/11 government is going to stop using a tool as powerfull as that? If "I" was the FBI,...

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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-21
Anonymous

The FBI may indeed "retire" Carnivore. But that is not the right question. The right questions

will lead to the right answers. Example : What ever happened to PROMIS software.? There are many people and institutions who have used this

software to commit crimes, and bring harm to the American peopl...

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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-22
Anonymous (1 replies)

It's being retired so the FBI can save money. There have been products on the market for years that far exceed Carnivore capabilities (it runs on Windows based system). The FBI has switched to commercially available products that do the same thing.

Ever heard of IP based billing? Where packet sni...

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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-26
Anonymous

"Just my thoughts, and my one question, how does anyone know that Carnivore is really being retired?"

Exactly... which is why the press is being told this so the American public can seem to have some sense of security and terrorism is at a minimal threat now. Let's be real people... the US go...

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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-22
Paul Stewart (1 replies)

Dsniff is a good tool, but it can't do everything. It is purely a password sniffer. I'm sure there are many situations when traffic needs to be captured assembled and presented. If they simply relied on dsniff they would have to use captured passwords to log on to systems and access information t...

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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-25
Anonymous

quote: "At least with ethereal they could get everything then send the capture files to appropriate programs that could parse for valid information"

Sure, this works fine in theory, but given the amount of informations that float through a busy router, it is just infeasible to store all this. Som...

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Mangled metaphors 2005-01-24
Roger (1 replies)

"FBI surveillance experts have put their once-controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance tool out to pasture, "

A carnivore in the pasture? Sounds dangerous fro the sheep!! 8^)...

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IM surveillance 2005-01-28
Anonymous

bureau embracing commercial solutions for Internet surveillance they have using real-time string seraching and then recording all IP packets mainly in the IM world this. ...

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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-26
Robert Zachary

This does not mean that the use of a network forensics tool is NOT going to be used. It just means they will not use carnivire any longer. I have a feeling I know which tool they will move to.......

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Trust NO ONE! 2008-04-24
Anonymous

Use encryption!...

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