[FYI] 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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