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Carnivore is a windows server placed in a ISP sits and collects data. Email, chat room, web surfing details, Carnivore can analyze millions of messages per second while it searches for the specific messages that it wants.
The FBI is developing Carnivore to help the agency police cyberspace. Law enforcement officials have expressed increasing concern over how the Internet is used illegally for those who would anonymously distribute child pornography, steal confidential proprietary information or wreak havoc on e-commerce giants by hacking into their systems.
Carnivore runs on a windows server and were placed in ISPs after 911 tragedy.
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