What is carnivore?
Carnivore is a proprietary software program that used to use the US Federal Investigation Office (FBI) to secretly capture E -mail and Internet traffic. His public purpose was to collect evidence against child pornographs, suspicious terrorists, online fraud and other crime. In 2005, it was widely reported that Carnivore was replaced by commercially available software. Carnivore was reportedly used to monitor traffic on the servers of some Internet service providers (ISP) between the end of 90 and 2005. Although the government was reluctant to discuss the details of the carnivores, some facts were quite well introduced.
Carnivore was a "packet sniffer" designed to read the header when passing information packages. The header includes information about the sender/receivers, among other things. By scanning all passing packets on the ISP server, Carnivore could use the filter system for automatically copying and recording any packets that MATCHED certain criteria. The criteria based on identification could focus on some or all online communications. Data packets that did not release the filter would simply go through the unprocessed.
Carnivore reports eventually escaped to meet the negative response of the public. In the Donald Kerr statement statements, the FBI auxiliary director stressed that the FBI adheres to protocols that first require summons or orders based on reasonable suspicion before capturing the individual's online communication. Even at that time, the order can be limited to a specific e -Maly or a certain website. However, the determination has little to suppress the public concerns, especially concerns for privacy advocates.
CARNIVORE critics claimed that its implementation in monitoring all traffic packets on the server or network could be too easily abused or abused to hit the rights adherence to the laws on PRivacy. Add to this the lack of supervision of the Carnivore program, because the nature of the FBI itself excludes independent supervision. These fears remain today.
Carnivore is a third generation program with an earlier incarnation (1997-1999) called Omnivore . As soon as Carnivore received such a negative printing, the FBI changed the name of the electronic program for knocking on the wires to less threatening DSC-1000 . The abbreviation reportedly means "digital collection system".
DSC-1000 is actually a set of three programs, of which Carnivore is one. Two more programs are paceteer and Coolminer . Although there has never been an official word about the features of Paceteer or Coolminer, it is generally believed that the data packets captured by Carnivore, Packateer have re -assembled them and Coolminer analyzed on the resulting information. Suite is summarized as dragonware suite .
If some of the legislature have how to sniff packets soonfor the recovery of the right. The US government is legally requiring that ISP leaves all data to all individuals for up to two years. This proposal, formally known as "data retention", is also commonly referred to as snooping ISP.
While personal data advocates are against data preservation for many reasons, the European Union passed similar laws in December 2005, it is expected to come into force in 2008. With the prospect of having such massive databases with such detailed information about every online history. Some even say that if there is something positive about the retention of data, it can only be that it does a breaking looking tame.