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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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FBI retires its Carnivore 2005-01-22
Anonymous
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.

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