I can only agree. It's not like this is the blueprint to a nuclear weapon or something, or that its software concepts are so cutting-edge that it contains sensitive source code. Carnivore is for all intents and purposes a filter with an activity log; the amount that's logged varies with the settings but that's simply all it is.

What's interesting to me is that information about the older tool on which Omnivore was based is the most heavily redacted section, including even the name of the program. When I first read that I thought, "Shouldn't an old, obsolete program be pretty much declassified since the newer versions are pretty tame anyway?" But notice the other comments about NSA technology filtering down to the FBI: This is where it gets good. Carnivore is an awful lot like a kiddie version of a certain NSA mass intelligence-gathering program about which few details have ever been released, almost none ever admitted to publicly, even though the existence of the system is by now common knowledge. Could it be that portions of the source for Echelon itself are included in those redacted sections?

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