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	Carnivore (FBI) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carnivore is a name given to a system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is analogous to wiretapping except in this case, e-mail and other communications are being tapped instead of telephone conversations.
		Carnivore was essentially a customizable packet sniffer that could monitor all of a target user's Internet traffic.
		The Carnivore device works much like commercial "sniffers" and other network diagnostic tools used by ISPs every day, except that it provides the FBI with a unique ability to distinguish between communications which may be lawfully intercepted and those which may not.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carnivore_(FBI) (703 words)

	Carnivore FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The FBI is not allowed to put Carnivore on the network unless the ISP claims it cannot (or will not) comply with the court order.
		The FBI claims that they used Carnivore only 10% of the time for such court orders: most of the time the ISP complies with the court order using their own facilities.
		Carnivore is widely publicized and many ISP engineers have direct experience with Carnivore (and know where the boxes are placed); Echelon is much more secretive.
	corz.org /public/docs/privacy/carnivore-faq.html (8366 words)

	New Big Brother FBI E-Mail CARNIVORE Scanner A Meat Eater
		This is the same FBI bunch who tried to hide their tracks in the Waco Texas branch Davidians by denying they had fired incendiary devices into the compound which may have started the fire that killed over 70 men, women and children.
		She also said that although she knew the FBI had surveillance capabilities like those used by Carnivore, she did not know of the application or that it was already in use.
		The FBI is not responding to the requests of the ISP industry because they claim if they disclose the CARNIVORE source code it would allow hackers to find ways to defeat it and disclosure may violate copyright laws of the product vendor who programmed the system.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/carnivore_scanner.htm (1817 words)

	FBI abandons Carnivore wiretap software - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Instead, the FBI said it has switched to unspecified commercial software to eavesdrop on computer traffic during such investigations and has increasingly asked Internet providers to conduct wiretaps on targeted customers on the government's behalf, reimbursing companies for their costs.
		The FBI said it could not disclose how much it spent to produce the surveillance software it no longer uses, saying part of its budget was classified.
		The FBI laboratory division, which produced Carnivore, was headed by Donald M. Kerr, who left the FBI in August 2001 to become the CIA's chief gadget-maker as head of its science and technology directorate.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6841403/print/1/displaymode/1098 (570 words)

	FBI system covertly searches e-mail \| Tech News on ZDNet
		The FBI developed the Internet wiretapping system at a special agency lab at Quantico, Va., and dubbed it Carnivore for its ability to get to "the meat" of what would otherwise be an enormous quantity of data.
		FBI technicians unveiled the system to a roomful of astonished industry specialists here two weeks ago in order to steer efforts to develop standardized ways of complying with federal wiretaps.
		Most of the criminal cases where the FBI used Carnivore in the past 18 months focused on what the bureau calls "infrastructure protection," or the hunt for hackers, though it also was used in counterterrorism and some drug-trafficking cases.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-522071.html (1079 words)

	FBI Programs and Initiatives - Carnivore Diagnostic Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Carnivore device provides the FBI with a "surgical" ability to intercept and collect the communications which are the subject of the lawful order while ignoring those communications which they are not authorized to intercept.
		Carnivore serves to limit the messages viewable by human eyes to those which are strictly included within the court order.
		The FBI is sharing information regarding Carnivore with industry at this time to assist them in their efforts to develop open standards for complying with wiretap requirements.
	www.cdt.org /security/carnivore/000724fbi.shtml (811 words)

	Surveillance Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Carnivore is a packet "sniffer" diagnostic tool that the FBI's Engineering Research Facility (ERF) in Quantico, Va. developed to covertly search for e-mails and other computer messages from criminal suspects.
		It was developed by the FBI's ERF in 1999, and in 2000 was reported to have been used in over 50 cases.
		The FBI offered its presentation on the Carnivore program during the June 2000 meeting in order to demonstrate at least one of the means by which the FBI is conducting electronic surveillance pursuant to court orders.
	www.tiaonline.org /standards/carnivore (563 words)

	I, Cringely . July 13, 2000 - Meet Eater \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Adding the Carnivore task is a simple matter of blind copying every packet to or from a bad guy to a third address at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC.
		And by doing it themselves with Carnivore, the FBI doesn't have to reveal the identity of the bad guy or extent to which it is using the box.
		If we ever hear a proposal from the FBI in which it plans to install Carnivores at all 6000 ISPs in the U.S., we'll be giving the government the power to do something it can't do right now.
	www.pbs.org /cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000713.html (984 words)

	The Carnivore Page
		Carnivore, the FBI's controversial e-mail snooping program, is part of covert surveillance triad known inside the bureau as the "DragonWare Suite," according to recently declassified documents.
		FBI Shows Off Carnivore: FBI officials defended Carnivore by telling hand-picked media representatives that the system is necessary "because some smaller ISPs do not have the capability to provide the data that law enforcement needs quickly," the Washington Post reported.
		Carnivore: Interview with Rep. Bob Barr (R - Ga.): When the FBI launched its latest crime-fighting project, known by the name Carnivore, a lot of people worried that this new system could be dangerous - not for crooks, but for innocent people.
	www.akdart.com /carniv.html (3500 words)

	FBI retires its Carnivore
		FBI surveillance experts have put their once-controversial Carnivore Internet surveillance tool out to pasture, preferring instead to use commercial products to eavesdrop on network traffic, according to documents released Friday.
		Carnivore became a hot topic among civil libertarians, some network operators and many lawmakers in 2000, when an ISP's legal challenge brought the surveillance tool's existence to light.
		FBI agents lugged it with them to ISPs that lacked their own spying capability.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/10307 (478 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - FBI says Carnivore will not devour privacy - July 21, 2000
		According to the FBI, Carnivore works much like a "sniffer," a program that has been around for some time and is designed to monitor and analyze network traffic so as to help network administrators eliminate such problems as bottlenecks.
		FBI officials believe critics will be less fearful once they know more about Carnivore, which has been used in about 25 investigations in the last year, including criminal cases and "national security" cases involving counter-intelligence or counter-terrorism.
		FBI sources told CNN that Reno was briefed on the system by FBI Director Louis Freeh on Thursday.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/07/21/fbi.carnivore (787 words)

	CNN.com - FBI to release Carnivore documents, but schedule draws fire - August 17, 2000
		The Justice Department told a federal judge that the FBI had located 3,000 pages in response to a Freedom of Information request and lawsuit by the group, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which asked for every document the FBI has describing the computerized system that has raised an uproar among civil libertarians and in Congress.
		The FBI's letter to Sobel was contained in a Justice Department "status report" filed Wednesday with a federal court in Washington.
		Sobel, however, said the FBI's plan for the release of documents is unacceptable, and he plans on going back to court to force a faster release.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/08/17/justice.carnivore (1062 words)

	“Privacy Risks of Internet Wiretapping” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Carnivore is a system introduced by the FBI to provide it with “a ‘surgical’ ability to intercept and collect the communications which are the subject of a lawful order while ignoring those communications which [it is] not authorized to intercept” [2].
		If we ever hear a proposal from the FBI in which it plans to install Carnivores at all 6000 ISPs in the U.S., we'll be giving the government the power to do something it can't do right now: Shut the Internet down [3].
		All a router has to do is forward any packets with that destination port (incoming OR outgoing) in their header to the original destination and the FBI's destination, where the individual packets can be put back together into the complete email using all the other fun stuff in the various packet headers.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~zvaughan/cs7paper1.html (1143 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Carnivore upsets privacy groups
		The FBI has dubbed the system "Carnivore" for its ability "to get to the meat" of the intercepted messages.
		In addition, the government told the ISP that the Carnivore system would be capable of capturing much more information than authorised under the court order, but that they would programme the system to target only information from a suspect's account.
		Barry Steinhardt, Associate Director of the ACLU said that Carnivore "is comparable to allowing government agents to rip open Post Office mailbags and scan every piece of mail in search of one specific letter whose address they already know".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/831111.stm (513 words)

	The technology behind FBI's 'Carnivore' \| Tech News on ZDNet
		FBI engineers went to work on it 18 months ago, and within a year added enough bells and whistles to create a telephone tap for the 2000s -- and scandal over just how much information the program is able to cull.
		An FBI spokesman confirmed today that the Carnivore program was built from an off-the-shelf sniffer program, but declined to say which one.
		But it was enough to give "Carnivore a unique ability to distinguish between communications which may be lawfully intercepted and those which may not," according to an FBI spokesman.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-522338.html (598 words)

	News (washingtonpost.com)
		FBI officials said yesterday that the tests were conducted only to determine the breaking point of the software, and they reiterated their pledge to restrict snooping within legal limits.
		Carnivore is under fire from members of Congress, who have called for its suspension, and from privacy groups and Internet providers worried it will be used to track innocent people's e-mail and Internet use.
		Marcus Thomas, head of the FBI cybertechnology section, said the tests were "good engineering practices" to measure how much data Carnivore could handle.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/nation/articles/carnivores18.htm (457 words)

	Sherman Skolnick's Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		FBI's super-secret Counter-Intelligence inner sanctum, Division Five, has reportedly been exposed and unmasked, at least to the inside delight of foreign intelligence hackers, or those claiming to be.
		As a legal entity, however, ACLU ceased to exist in 1967, and was at that time taken over by the Roger Baldwin Foundation and a team of related so-called tax-exempt entities reportedly financed, at least in part, through covert funding by the American CIA passed through other Foundations to hide the tracks.
		Cynics claim the reputed "foreign intelligence" hackers and software experts reversing the FBI's CARNIVORE spy devices, are really just the American CIA and their latest dirty trick to boomerang against their illegitimate, unco-operative step-sister FBI.
	www.skolnicksreport.com /carnivore.html (987 words)

	EPIC Carnivore Page
		The FBI claims that Carnivore "filters" data traffic and delivers to investigators only those "packets" that they are lawfully authorized to obtain.
		At an emergency hearing held on August 2, 2000, U.S. District Judge James Robertson ordered the FBI to report back to the court by August 16 and to identify the amount of material at issue and the Bureau's schedule for releasing it.
		The FBI subsequently reported that 3000 pages of responsive material were located, but it refused to commit to a date for the completion of processing.
	www.epic.org /privacy/carnivore (696 words)

	Cage Carnivore / Clinton needs to act to tame FBI e-mail surveillance
		With all due respect to the FBI, the American Civil Liberties Union is not prepared to take the giant leap of faith that the FBI will only look at or capture the small set of communications to which they are entitled under a court order.
		It is as though the FBI suddenly believes it has the right and legal authority to send agents into the post office to rip open each and every mailbag and search for one specific letter.
		To use another analogy, Carnivore is like the telephone company being forced to give the FBI access to all the calls on its network when it only has permission to seek the calls for one subscriber.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/21/ED64284.DTL (849 words)

	Wired News: Judge to FBI: Move on Carnivore
		Carnivore was recently revealed to be a method used by the FBI to tap electronic mail communications during criminal investigations.
		The FBI has argued that Carnivore is a "well-focused" system that has been used in only a small number of cases.
		The FBI maintains that while Carnivore is designed to specifically target individual email transmissions, the agency does not read the unrelated email that is caught in Carnivore's electronic net.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,37967,00.html (792 words)

	EPIC Carnivore FOIA Documents
		FBI Report to Congress on Use of Carnivore/DCS 1000 (pdf) (12/18/03) -- Reports that the FBI used commercial software to conduct electronic surveillance eight times in fiscal year 2003, and did not use Carnivore or DCS 1000.
		FBI Report to Congress on Use of Carnivore/DCS 1000 (pdf) (2/24/03) -- Reports that the FBI used commercial software to conduct electronic surveillance five times in fiscal year 2002, and did not use Carnivore or DCS 1000.
		Court Order Authorizing Carnivore Installation at Earthlink (C.D. Cal. Feb.
	www.epic.org /privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html (251 words)

	Carnivore Details Emerge
		The FBI's eagerness to use the system may have slowed its development: one report notes that it became "difficult to maintain the schedule," because the Bureau deployed the nascent surveillance tool for "several emergency situations" while it was still in beta release.
		Justice Department and FBI officials have testified that Carnivore is used almost exclusively to monitor email, but noted that it was capable of monitoring messages sent over web-based email services like Hotmail.
		Some of the documents show that the FBI plans to add yet more features to version 2.0 and 3.0 of the surveillance tool, but the details are almost entirely redacted.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/97 (778 words)

	I, Cringely . July 20, 2000 - Carnivore 2.0 \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That's may be why Earthlink sued the government to stop having to install Carnivores and why they settled last week on a system that does just what I proposed — forget the Carnivore box and have the ISP do the work.
		The FBI could still do traffic analysis, but that can be worked around fairly simply, too; I just have to co-locate a couple of servers (S1 and S2) at different ISPs outside of the US.
		But Carnivore has its defenders, specifically folks who are worried about evidence being tainted or corrupted by going through the hands of anyone but a cop.
	www.pbs.org /cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000720.html (1370 words)

	PCWorld.com - Stopping Carnivore Doesn't Stop FBI Surveillance
		Surprisingly, after all the controversy about the Carnivore program when word of its use first trickled out nearly five years ago, the FBI says it hasn't used the Carnivore program in the past 24 months.
		The other software, which Bresson now uses in place of Carnivore, is used by the FBI only in the event that an ISP doesn't provide the federal agency with the information it needs.
		According to the FBI's Bresson, when the program was utilized during the two years it was active, it was used sparingly.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,119404,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp (635 words)

	ComputerUser.com News: FBI Defends "Carnivore" Cyber-Snoop Device (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The FBI's newest e-mail surveillance tool is simply a logical extension of its existing wiretapping technology and does not pose any new privacy threat to rank-and-file Internet users, the FBI contended today in response to a critical news report about its recently developed "Carnivore" device.
		Carnivore, which the FBI first put into use a little more than a year ago, simply extends the bureau's wiretapping capabilities to e-mail messages.
		The FBI was responding to an article in today's Wall Street Journal, which quoted Mark Rasch, "a former federal computer-crimes prosecutor" as saying that allowing the FBI to use the Carnivore is "the electronic equivalent of listening to everybody's phone calls to see if it's the phone call you should be monitoring."
	www.computeruser.com /news/00/07/13/news10.html (487 words)

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