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CyberArmy Privacy Commission: Project Carnivore| Category | | | Summary | | Carnivore was a serious threat to online privacy. The Carnivore Project was formerly known as Omnivore, and was used by the FBI to monitor Internet traffic. It consists of a packet sniffer that records all Internet activity that passes through the network |
| | Body | If the FBI reinstates a project like Carnivore sometime in the near future, there are some ways to protect yourself from the prying eyes of the government. Make sure that when you are looking at private or confidential information, that the transmission is encrypted. Use a program like Stunnel to encrypt your IRC sessions. You can use a Jabber gateway to secure your chat protocols and finally, use TLS for mail, and a secure proxy for browsing.
Using these tools, you can keep the FBI off of your case and have the knowledge that your communications are secure until they reach the server that you are connecting too (i.e. jabber.unoc.net). Past that, your communications are sent in cleartext to where ever it must go. Using the jabber.unoc.net example (a jabber server that supports AIM gateways), I can SSL my messages to the server, but they are then decrypted and forwarded to the recipent. Using Psi, it is possible to encrypt conversations end-to-end using PGP, but this requires that the receiver has Psi and a PGP key.
Cyberarmy's CPC has been heading up a project to document Project Carnivore and other related projects such as Echelon, Magic Lantern and DragonNet/DragonWare. They also are looking into the legal implications of these projects. |
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