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IP: Fwd: Carnivore? Yarnivore? Herbivore? Altivore?
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 15:24:50 -0400
Reply-To: <richard () dooling com> From: "Richard Dooling" <richard () dooling com> To: <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Carnivore? Yarnivore? Herbivore? Altivore? Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 13:39:44 -0500 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal Dave, was going to run this on our site tomorrow and Tuesday. Would love other suggestions from IPers. Carnivore has been hailed as a stroke of public relations genius and is working so well for the FBI that officials at the Bureau Of Information Technology are introducing new varieties as fast as they can make new boxes. Some of the new permutations on Carnivore being overnighted to ISPs this week include: Yarnivore: Intercepts all requests for information from the FBI about why it needs to hide Carnivore inside a black box when the same thing could be accomplished with a few lines of code and no new hardware. Yarnivore then spins yarns or stories about how the black box performs various obscure, essential functions which cannot be disclosed at this time. Herbivore: Comes in a green box, sifts all email traffic looking for the words: marijuana, Acapulco Gold, bammer, bionic, bomb, brown, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, chronic, dank, doubage, ganja, grass, green, groove weed, hash, hemp, herb, home-grown, hydro, ill, Indo, kef, Lebanon, Mary Jane, Maui Wowey, method, pot, sensimilla, sess, shake, skunk, stress, tabacci, Thai, wacky weed, or "Bill Clinton" and "inhale" in the same sentence and routes them to the Drug Enforcement Agency to see if any enforcement is necessary. <more at http://weirdharold.com>
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