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Network Associates Buys "Better Carnivore"
ShaunC writes "CNet is reporting that Network Associates has just purchased a software company called Traxess, whose main product - DragNet - supposedly makes Carnivore look like a toy. DragNet is capable of monitoring everything from email to web, FTP sessions to IMs, even print jobs and VOIP conversations; sorting the protocols and logging it all to disk at gigabit speeds. One NAI exec envisions "the government using it to investigate employees and hackers." NAI has also issued a press release about DragNet."
I am no longer filtering spam. I'll make those suckers wish they didn't monitor my email!!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
As long as this technology is not used against whites, what is the big deal? In light of 9/11 it is clearly obvious that the government is going to be focusing on immigrants (in particular, immigrants from Arab states.) When has a White ever committed terrorism against the US? What are all of you fearmongers really afraid of?
I am the only one who read "better carnivore" as "sharks with lasers"?
I oversimplified the article and am acting cynical to sound smarter than I really am.
Whoop de shit.
Yeah , and as we all know , windows is sooo well written there'll never be another backdoor they could use to get hold of your stuff , oh no , won't ever happen , never...
Wow, this technology sounds incredible. Anyone who's run a packet sniffer on even a smallish office LAN (for debugging network problems, I swear! :) knows that it's nearly impossible to keep all of the different ports, protocols, and IP addresses straight.
It'll be great to see what law enforcement can do with this. I imagine if we'd had this kind of tech in place a year ago, we might have averted 9/11 altogether, so maybe this will help ensure it never happens again. Imagine the power: wondering if Tom R. O'Layman is funnelling money to the IRA? Just click a button and check out his emails, phone calls, and web history. It looks like we're headed toward a new era of public safety.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
So, the govt and nai will then be opening the worlds largest pr()n sites from the stored cache?
-Peter
"Your network. Our business."
My motto is:
"My network. None of your business." but I guess that is where they and I have a parting of the ways... ;-)
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Well for the most part joe public doesn't care .... Hell I don't care if the FBI finds out my master plan for friday night (get shit faced and hopefully laid).
.... some of us dont need it.
If you feel that your email is important enough to encrypt good for you
We need to kill this YRO-infringing monster by getting the people who own the rights to the DragNet TV series to sue these guys' asses off :-)
Fire with fire.
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One hundred and twenty chars!
Too short for haiku.
Its funny, every time I hear "War on Terrorism" or "to help counter-terrorism" I cringe because thats probably one more civil liberty being dragged off into some room to be beaten and interrogated...
But think about the children!!! We must protect the children!
The biggest problem that they face is replacing people who commit suicide after about a week of reading that stuff.