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Carnivore clone goes open source
News Internet service providers looking to sidestep the controversy surrounding the FBI's Carnivore system for sniffing Internet communications will soon be able to use an open source program that also conforms to the needs of law enforcement.
[September 21, 2000, 8:57]
Carnivore review: A 'stacked deck?'
News The American Civil Liberties Union and a congressional leader have roundly criticised the Department of Justice, saying it "stacked the deck" when it appointed a committee to review the FBI's Carnivore Internet surveillance system.
[October 5, 2000, 8:19]
Carnivore raises new concerns
News Newly released documents and a report from a highly criticised review panel have privacy experts once again questioning the FBI's motives in developing its Carnivore Internet surveillance system. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has...
[November 20, 2000, 8:39]
Experts: Carnivore review had no teeth
News A who's who among corporate and academic security researchers on Monday criticised a government-funded review of the FBI's Carnivore Internet surveillance system as "limited" and "inadequate". We continue to have serious concerns relating to the...
[December 5, 2000, 8:52]
FBI's Carnivore: Gnawing at liberty?
News Franklin's words were cited again this week in TalkBacks from ZDNet News readers disturbed by reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is covertly using a superfast system called Carnivore to searches of emails in hopes of flagging...
[July 12, 2000, 12:03]
FBI dumps Carnivore - but in name only
News The FBI has dressed its online wolf in sheep's clothing, changing the name of its controversial email surveillance system -- known up until now as Carnivore. Carnivore now goes by the less beastly moniker of DCS1000, drawn from the work it does as...
[February 12, 2001, 9:01]
US congress to ask for Carnivore code
News The US congress is expected to put pressure on the FBI to release the working details of its controversial "Carnivore" email monitoring system at a hearing Monday, reports the Wall Street Journal. The FBI has reportedly claimed that revealing this...
[July 24, 2000, 17:31]
The technology behind FBI's 'Carnivore'
News The FBI's email snooping "Carnivore" -- now the centre of a fierce debate over privacy -- began life on a store shelf. For the last two weeks, the FBI has been quiet about Carnivore, which it has been using with judges' permission since March to...
[July 20, 2000, 9:09]
FBI releases first Carnivore data
News The FBI released the first documents about its controversial Carnivore email surveillance software on Tuesday, but more than half of the 750 pages were blacked out and hundreds more were withheld. The Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC...
[October 4, 2000, 8:53]
FBI kills off Carnivore
Talkback The reality is the whole network in America has been growing into "Carnivore" by getting forced cooperation of ISPs with law enforcement . This Reuters' article is a misleading. Currently, FBI needs no warrant for wiretapping against "terror suspects.
[January 19, 2005, 17:04]
Carnivore cleared by Department of Justice
News The FBI started the Carnivore project -- originally under the name "Omnivore" -- in February 1997 to design a system that could perform the equivalent of a telephone wiretap on Internet communications.
[November 22, 2000, 16:12]
Documents reveal Carnivore failures
News A privacy watchdog group on Tuesday made public internal FBI documents that discuss failures of the agency's Carnivore online surveillance technology. The documents, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), detail at least one incident...
[May 29, 2002, 9:13]
Judge: FBI must cough up Carnivore info
News Privacy advocates have won another round in their fight to gain access to more information about the FBI's Carnivore email surveillance system. A federal judge this week ordered the FBI to expand its search for records about Carnivore, also known...
[March 28, 2002, 9:24]
Politician issues Carnivore warning
News Armey joins a chorus of politicians and privacy advocates voicing concern over DCS1000, the technology more commonly known as Carnivore. Carnivore is a system that is installed at Internet service providers to monitor e-mail from criminal suspects.
[June 15, 2001, 8:24]
Congress isn't swallowing Carnivore
News Officials from the FBI and the US Department of Justice faced a sceptical -- and at times downright hostile -- House Judiciary Committee Monday during an oversight hearing on the constitutional issues raised by the FBI's Carnivore electronic...
[July 25, 2000, 9:01]
News Burst: FBI uses covert email surveillance system
News America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using a super-fast email scanning system dubbed "Carnivore" to covertly trawl through email messages in order to capture suspected criminals, reports the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
[July 11, 2000, 16:21]
FBI uses covert email surveillance system
News America's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using a super-fast email scanning system dubbed "Carnivore" to covertly trawl through email messages in order to capture suspected criminals, reports the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.
[July 12, 2000, 10:23]
FBI taps ISPs in hunt for attackers
News The FBI developed Carnivore, now renamed DCS1000, to allow it to wiretap communications that go through Internet service providers. We are able to provide them with information on an immediate basis," he said, stressing that such an ability made...
[September 13, 2001, 9:57]
Cookieless Web monitoring tool 'nearly undetectable'
News The FBI has battled privacy groups seeking information on its DCS1000 Web monitoring technology, also known as Carnivore, which is installed on systems run by Internet service providers. Get the latest on spy networks such as Echelon and Carnivore...
[May 13, 2002, 10:14]
FBI uses hacking technology for surveillance
News US Representative Richard Armey, a Texas Republican, sees such techniques -- and their remote installation -- as a better deal for citizens than Carnivore, the FBI's controversial email surveillance system.
[November 22, 2001, 10:50]
