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."

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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

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.