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Dartmouth Student Invents A Carnivore Leash

timdorr writes: "Looks like a student at Dartmouth wants to turn Carnivore into a much more resonable tool according to this Wired article. I'd personally feel a lot less invaded if I knew the system was in place and in this form. Hopefully the government takes notice becuase Carnivore still seems like quite a loophole for our government to exploit."

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  1. And remember by Kierthos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't just leash your Carnivore, spay or neuter it unless you want to be responsible for little baby Carnivores.

    Kierthos

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  2. Get some perspective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone who thinks Carnivore is a ferocious animal right now, please step into the hallway for your I.Q. test.
    Everyone else knows that after 9/11 so many people made calls, emails, HAM traffic to the tune of 'terrorist' this, 'Cell' that, that Carnivore must have sustained a complete mental(server) breakdown. Put your thoughts to things of more importance (Israel/Palistineans, Coke vs Pepsi). The chance that something the FBI/CIA built outside of a national coding symposium would be so utterly, absolutely crashed from the traffic of keywords that it doesn't bear looking at. I'm not trying to point you in the direction of unilateral oversight and say it's OK, I'm just saying that 'right now' there are more important things to look at than a system more crashed and confused, that it probably thinks its an Atari 2600 with a buggy version of Combat loaded up

    1. Re:Get some perspective by Edgewize · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...

      So, what three-letter agency do you work for?

  3. If you really want to make it less offensive... by Xenographic · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... convert Carnivore into Herbivore (e.g. something that's not going on a legal 'fishing expidition')

    Otherwise, only criminals are entitled to [or get any] privacy...

  4. Re:Too clever for his own good... by digitalunity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Un-American? He's being down right UNPATRIOTIC. How dare all you fuckers; privacy? You don't get no stinking privacy! If you are innocent, you have nothing to hide, right?
    [/sarcasm]

    I'm 1/4 Australian. When can I move?

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  5. How long before . . . by div_2n · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone says "You didn't get my email? Carnivore ate my homework prefessor. That is the only explanation."