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Re: carnivore is a windoze app... ha
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Thu Jul 27 11:46:33 2000
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:30:09 -0700
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 2:31 AM -0500 on 7/27/00, Adam Back wrote:
> Carnivore is a "windows 2000
> computer".
Actually, its core is a store-bought copy of EtherPeek (BTW, Skyline is a
load-monitoring program, EtherPeek sees inside packets), and it runs on NT,
with a few ancillary unix boxes hanging around it.
I know because I had a meeting from someone from, um, Walnut Creek, last
night about something completely different -- and necessary in a world of
instantaneous transactions -- that you can only sell for streaming
millibucs. :-).
Evidently, it's pretty simple to make a tamper-resistant carnivore box
which only gets its filter-feed instructions from a judge's signed messages.
Want to bet that the Feds will never buy one?
:-/.
Cheers,
RAH
Yet another Mac-invented product making its real money, literally on the
dark side, I'm afraid ;-).
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