We offer an HTML version of the Carnivore technical review report released yesterday by the Department of Justice (without appendices): http://cryptome.org/carnivore.rev.htm (164KB text, 8 images) One notable conclusion about Carnivore's shortcomings and why its code should not be released to the public: Carnivore can be countered with simple, public-domain encryption. But it can snarf everything done by a targeted Web user, e-mail, FTP, HTTP, and you name it. And, as Nicky Hager writes today, this capability is to become the global standard if the FBI gets its way: http://www.heise.de/tp/english/special/enfo/4306/1.html
