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Network Associates Buys "Better Carnivore"

Posted by michael on from the need-bigger-hard-drives dept.

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."

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  1. Haha, suckers! by FortKnox · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
  2. excellent by tps12 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  3. GollumSoft by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Traxess, formerly known a GollumSoft.

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


    -Peter
  4. Gives their slogan a new meaning! by WolfWithoutAClause · · Score: 4, Funny
    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... ;-)

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  5. An infinite number of monkeys... by fmaxwell · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.