Carnivore is the software being used by the FBI in usa, which goes through all emails going through each and every gateway on the usa internet backbone. The software is designed to scan the details of the email and based on specific words and phases, identify emails which may contain information regarding any possible threat to "national security", etc.
Somehow the existance of such a software has now become public knowlege in usa and has been the source of a lot of critisism there. Since we have some ilug members in usa, all our emails go through the same system. And for those of you who have been harping on crypto tools, please remember that the govt of usa is given a key for every crypto system that is developed and sold in usa and abroad by US companies. So, the can very easily read even your so called encrypted emails. Futher, the strongest crypto available is a 128 bit key, which given the amount of computing power available with US Govt agencies, cracking the code even by brute force methods is not difficult. For more details of carnivore : http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2663323,00.html http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2657115,00.html http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/publications/carniv_entry.htm Regards Saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amol Hatwar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] vsnl & virus scan > > > > > > carnivore in it, it will be picked up by the software for detailed > carnivore...? what carnivore... its DC1000 :). > > Regards, > > Amol Hatwar. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > > _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
