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FBI?s Carnivore has partners: Declassified documents reveal e-mail snoop program details

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FBI’s Carnivore has partners

Declassified documents reveal e-mail snoop program details

A declassified "flow chart" of how Carnivore works.

By Brock N. Meeks © MSNBC

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — Carnivore, the FBI’s controversial e-mail snooping program, hunts in a pack. The program is part of covert surveillance triad known inside the bureau as the “DragonWare Suite,” according to recently declassified documents. The documents also outline how the DragonWare Suite is more than simply an e-mail snooping program: it’s capable of reconstructing the Web surfing trail of someone under investigation.

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According to an analysis of the declassified documents by SecurityFocus, a California-based computer security firm, the DragonWare Suite can “reconstruct Web pages exactly as a surveillance target saw them while surfing the Web.” Besides Carnivore, the DragonWare Suite includes programs called “Packeteer” and “Coolminer,” the documents reveal. These latter programs are used to reconstruct the raw data scooped up in the initial phase by Carnivore.

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