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."

Comments

Haha, suckers!

[FortKnox]

I am no longer filtering spam. I'll make those suckers wish they didn't monitor my email!!

Re:Wow...

[Anonvmous Coward]

I oversimplified the article and am acting cynical to sound smarter than I really am.

Whoop de shit.

excellent

[tps12]

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.

Pr()n Net

[GibsonSundman]

So, the govt and nai will then be opening the worlds largest pr()n sites from the stored cache?

GollumSoft

[pete-classic]

Traxess, formerly known a GollumSoft.

We traxess it, doesn't we, precious. Yesss, we traxess and logsess all its nasssty little emailsess.

-Peter

Re:GollumSoft

[Moosifer]

That was perhaps the funniest post I've ever seen on slashdot. Thank you!

Gives their slogan a new meaning!

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Check out their slogan on their homepage:

"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... ;-)

An infinite number of monkeys...

[fmaxwell]

Imagine the poor sods that have to go through the captured data. They'd get to read stuff like this all day:

HotHoney4462: I am a porn star.
StudMan217: Send me your picture!
HotHoney4462: I don't have one on my computer.
StudMan217: Do you have a scanner?
HotHoney4462: No. But my friends tell me I look like Pamela Anderson...
{...}
133t_dewd: i still cant run the password cracker you sent.
Neo4329542: what happens?
133t_dewd: i cant find it.
Neo4329542: where did you save it?
133t_dewd: i dont know -- i just hit okay.
Neo4329542: click on my computer.
133t_dewd: how? i can't see your computer...
{...}
Mom,
> Here's a picture of your father on
> the new tractor.
There was no picture attached. could you
send it again?
> The TV has been broken since you left. I turn
> it on and the screen is black except for three
> green letters in the upper left that say DVD.
> But there is no DVD in the machine. I ejected
> it twice and checked.
You have to hit the input select button on the
remote until you see a picture. It says DVD
because I played that one for you when I was there.

The biggest problem that they face is replacing people who commit suicide after about a week of reading that stuff.