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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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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 sniffers log and audit traffic at 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps speeds with <1 ms delay at millions of active user sessions? I have.

The FBI nor most of the government is finally spending our money wisely (better product for less money).

It's arguable what they actually do with the technology but that's another issue.

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