CDR: Re: Arthur Anderson black-bagged, NIPC now spooking

[Jim Choate]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote:

> (BTW, there is little discussion of the commercial espionage aspects 
> of Carnivore. I know that Intel must be thrilled at the prospect that 
> a Carnivore box attached to some node that their traffic flows 
> through will suck up all of _Intel's_ traffic. With luck, it will 
> convince companies like Intel and Microsoft to much more widely 
> deploy crypto for communications which might be intercepted by 
> Carnivores.)

Carnivore is a toy compared to other commercial tools already out there.
Look at the products from MuTek for example, their 'black box' technology
was done for the CIA.

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