IP: Fwd: Carnivore? Yarnivore? Herbivore? Altivore?

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

>Reply-To: <richard@dooling.com>
>From: "Richard Dooling" <richard@dooling.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Carnivore?  Yarnivore?  Herbivore?  Altivore?
>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:39:44 -0500
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>Dave, was going to run this on our site tomorrow and Tuesday.  Would love
>other suggestions from IPers.
>
>Carnivore has been hailed as a stroke of public relations genius and is
>working so well for the FBI that officials at the Bureau Of Information
>Technology are introducing new varieties as fast as they can make new
>boxes. Some of the new permutations on Carnivore being overnighted to ISPs
>this week include:
>
>Yarnivore: Intercepts all requests for information from the FBI about why it
>needs to hide Carnivore inside a black box when the same thing could be
>accomplished with a few lines of code and no new hardware.  Yarnivore then
>spins yarns or stories about how the black box performs various obscure,
>essential functions which cannot be disclosed at this time.
>
>Herbivore: Comes in a green box, sifts all email traffic looking for the
>words: marijuana, Acapulco Gold, bammer, bionic, bomb, brown, bud, buddha,
>cannabis, cheeba, chronic, dank, doubage, ganja, grass, green, groove weed,
>hash, hemp, herb, home-grown, hydro, ill, Indo, kef, Lebanon, Mary Jane,
>Maui Wowey, method, pot, sensimilla, sess, shake, skunk, stress, tabacci,
>Thai, wacky weed, or "Bill Clinton" and "inhale" in the same sentence and
>routes them to the Drug Enforcement Agency to see if any enforcement is
>necessary.
>
><more at http://weirdharold.com>