Cheaper Carnivore Alternatives Still Want To Spy On You

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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I beg to differ

[serps]

Not sure any of this is much comfort -- the lesser of two evils is still evil.

There is quite a difference between Carnivore's 'log everything on the server and ask questions later' approach and that of NetWitness. If you are an ISP and forced to comply with the Feds, I know which program your other users would rather have on their pipe.

It won't matter

[YIAAL]

The WTC bombers communicated in the clear, because no one knew enough to intercept their stuff.

You have to know who to spy on before this stuff does any good. That takes Intelligence. And intelligence.

Both are in short suply.