Security: A Sysadmin looks at Carnivore

Last year, I got a peek at Carnivore when FBI agents gave a talk in the Cyber Law and Society class I was taking at Harvard. Supervisory Special Agent Barry Smith and an associate told us the rise in Internet communications threatens the FBI's ability to fight crime, and Carnivore is one of the ways they hope to keep up. As more communication goes online, criminals are taking their activities there -- for planning, communication, and execution. Groove is useful for collaborative programming, but it could just as easily be used to plan a terrorist attack across international borders.