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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 2005-01-25
Anonymous
quote: "At least with ethereal they could get everything then send the capture files to appropriate programs that could parse for valid information"

Sure, this works fine in theory, but given the amount of informations that float through a busy router, it is just infeasible to store all this. Som...

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