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Carnivore No More

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the calling-it-quits dept.

wikinerd writes "FBI has retired the controversial Carnivore software, strongly criticized by privacy advocates for its email capturing abilities. However, it is believed that unspecified commercial surveillance tools are employed now. What does that mean for Internet users' privacy?"

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  1. Re:Selective editing from SecurityFocus? by java.bean · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, the "Crap Web Pages" filter on Google isn't working that well yet, it's still in beta: http://crapfilter.google.com/ .