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

Where there is money to be made...

[DirkDaring]

..there will be a startup to make a product. Even if it means the end of privacy on the internet. This doesn't surprise me at all.

Dirk

Encrypt it all.

[chfn]

Better reason to start encrypting everything. I do hate to see this type of power in the hands of a private company, though I'm sure monitoring like this has been done before. This tool just simplifies the data collection into a central, easy appliance.

Re:It's ALMOST at that point, you know..

[NorthDude]

An intersection is a public place.
Forget about "privacy" in a "public" place, it makes no sense.
Anyway, what do you have to fear being filmed at the intersection?
I prefer to be filmed at the intersection knowing that some people will be safer then not being filmed.
And do not throw me the famous "Those who would sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither freedom or safety"
Because I do not sacrifice any freedom for that little safety.

Now, back to spying on my internet connection/house/phone lines etc etc, this is another story and this is driving me nuts.
If I'm not accused of anything, or if they don't have a warrant, thry do not have any right to do so.

Re:It's ALMOST at that point, you know..

[Marc2k]

See those black helicopters in the sky?

Snipers.