[42555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Just Carnivore (was: Yahoogroups and Carnivore)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Len Sassaman)
Mon Sep 17 19:35:30 2001
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net>
To: Larry Diffey <ldiffey@technologyforward.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Larry Diffey wrote:
>
> Supposedly Carnivore only targets specific kinds of traffic and doesn't
> really monitor everything at once. It's not like (again, supposedly)
> Echelon that examines everything and then red flags certain items.
Wrong.
> Carnivore is only looking for certain things. Also, there is no outside
> access to it. Someone has to physically come in and remove the mass media
> (what ever that may be: more than likely a hard drive).
Wrong. See the report I posted and the section in it about dialin and ISDN
access.
