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Cheaper Carnivore Alternatives Still Want To Spy On You

Posted by timothy on from the less-blatant-but-still-blatant dept.

Troodon writes: The Register reports on Forensics Explorers' NetWitness. Rather than relying upon the FBI's 'fail-safe' separation of Carnivore Operators and Case Agents to discriminate between legitimate data and that inadmissably, incidentally siphoned up along with it and submitting to the installation of a mysterious black box within their network, ISP's can comply with CALEA in-house for approximately $2,500 per collector and between $35,000 and $45,000 for an analysis station. Should you fancy a little development, another cheaper alternative exists: Altivore." Not sure any of this is much comfort -- the lesser of two evils is still evil.

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  1. Carnivore on crack by gburgyan · · Score: 2, Funny
    alti - high
    vore - eater

    It must be carnivore on crack! Run for the hills!

  2. Some gems from the FBI website by CaptainAlbert · · Score: 2, Funny

    > "The Nation's communications networks are
    > routinely used in the commission of serious
    > criminal activities, including espionage."

    Hmmm. So which large autonomous governmental organisations can we think of who do this... :)

    > "The Carnivore device provides the FBI with
    > a "surgical" ability to intercept and collect
    > the communications which are the subject of the
    > lawful order while ignoring those
    > communications which they are not authorized to
    > intercept."

    Sure, it's surgical... in the same way that multiple amputations are surgical...

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  3. Re:Why is it so dificult for the message to pass t by motherhead · · Score: 2, Funny

    Snail-mail has been surveilled since J. Edgar Hoover was trying on his first set of pumps and as for the bathroom surveillance... well here you go dude