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Old Aug 19, 2009 | 5:34 am
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Originally Posted by jfulcher
Now Carnivore was truly meant to target specific users electronic communications. It was nothing more than a packet sniffer that filtered based on a target users IP address. Carnivore was never anything globally implemented, but it could be used just like a wiretap. You get a court order and the user's ISP plugged this device into their network (unless the ISP would cooperate without a court order) and off it went.
But given the FBI's abuse of things like National Security Letters and things like that to avoid getting a search warrant, are you 100% convinced that things like Carnivore are only being used benevolently?
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