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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."
The Unibomber, Timothy Nichols, Timothy McVeigh, pretty much any serial killer inspires terror. Their have been IRA attacks on American's abroad, etc etc etc....
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Sigs are for nobheads
^--- Isn't that a sig?
And who says Americans don't get irony? Jesus.
Sarcasm my ass, that fool was trolling with a damn fishing pole.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
This story is pretty old now, but it's still pretty damn funny.
A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs.
He promptly paid the bill.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
A woman on slashdot? I don't think so...
Lesson learned: Satirical criticism of somebody's post (who wasn't modded as off-topic) is off-topic.
I wouldn't be bothered by it if the guy ahead of me was modded down. I wish there was some flexibility with what 'off-topic' really means. I think there are people taking it too literally. Coincidentally, freedom to speak your mind without fear of consequences is what this article is about.
We should be out there constructing packet sniffers from hell. Ultra-sophisticated, AI-packed, near-sentient cyberarchfiends at home on 8192-node Beowolf clusters, capable of effortlessly sifting terabit net backbones for exactly what a snooper's little heart might desire, in context and auto-correlated with ATM usage, air travel activity, credit card records, you name it.
All open-sourced, of course, so every organization with a Need To Know from the East Podunk police to the IRS to the UN to the Mafia to your middle-school counselor can deploy this wonderful technology to get the information they need to Do Their Jobs and Defend This Great Nation Of Ours, whichever one that happens to be.
We should advocate laws to make it easier for them to plug in and monitor what they want, when they want. We should volunteer to help set up these monster snooping machines, and train the people who'll use them!
We should do all this because it might bring a bit closer the day when one of those rat bastards misreads an email address or such, sending an anti-terrorist SWAT team to smash down the door of someone's grandparents, whereby Grandpa, who thinks it's drug dealers or something, grabs his 12-gauge and is instantly shot dead by the jackboots, with Grandma catching a stray round in the gut but living just long enough to get the horrific tale out to the press, TV, Matt Drudge, and Oprah, triggering a firestorm of outrage and controversy that finally pounds into the head of each and every Internet user the ugly truth that someone REALLY IS watching their every move on the net, and finally causes developers, politicians, and the public in general to get a fscking clue and make strong encryption simple and ubiquitous, and pass/repeal some laws encouraging same while giving net messages the same protection as snail-mail messages, so we can all have at least a modicum of privacy in our lives once again.
DDB
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