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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
Paul Stewart
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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