"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 government will not put Carnivore to rest it h as been a "KEY" for the government. They are only "adding" software to there tool base to investigate internet crime.

Also, to save money?? Are you out of your mind? This is the United States goverment we are speaking of. So, we can spend around 70.4 billion dollars for our troops to be in Iraq, yet the FBI is thinking about retireing Carnivore which has only cost, what around 2-3million dollars/year to operate. Come on.

Also, as far as IP based billing. That has been around for "years" its just now that it is being discovered. Heh this was available with ISDN yet the technology was not there to support it's role and ISDN was a "POOR" networking media.

Spending money wisely? Maybe come back to reality and look into the facts of world History, history has a way of repeating itself (no way around it).

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