Cheaper Carnivore Alternatives Still Want To Spy On You

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 2, 2001 @10:49PM 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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Re:Let me get this straight... by jellybear · 2001-10-02 23:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If less people had the conviction to die doing crazy evil things, and more people sat around in jammies eating Shreddies, the world would be a better place
Re:It won't matter by King+Of+Chat · 2001-10-03 01:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well, if people didn't think they were inept before, they sure do now.

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I don't trust Altivore... by Scratch-O-Matic · 2001-10-03 01:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm holding out for carGNivore.

Or GNOC (GNOC's Not Carnivore)

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