IP: Industry Standard Article on Carnivore

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>From: "Jason L. Rosensweig" <jason.rosensweig@nist.gov>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
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>A solid review of the situation, with some nice snippets of congressional 
>buzz.
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>At least it's better than omnivore:
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>"The name Carnivore is something the FBI now regrets, agency officials 
>have said, because it implies that the system devours large quantities of 
>information the way a lion consumes fresh meat. Kerr explained that the 
>system is actually a packet sniffer similar to the types of technology 
>used by network administrators to diagnose problems on their networks. 
>Carnivore can pick up only the packets that use the Internet protocol 
>address to which the FBI has been granted access by court order, Kerr said."
>
>http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17093,00.html
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>Jason Rosensweig
>National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
>Computer Security Division, Room 667
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