Carnivore

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With the sniffer program "Carnivore", the FBI can order an Internet Service Provider to place a special monitoring computer called Carnivore (now renamed "Data Collection System 1000") on its network servers. The FBI can then select the e-mail of surveillance targets for capture and storage. Companies like Top Layer Networks, Inc. of Westboro, Massachusetts, are developing ways for FBI to install surveillance systems at a few key Internet hubs which would allow federal agents to remotely flip a switch and pound a few keys to begin monitoring the e-mail or web-based mail of any targeted group or individual. The higher gigabit intercept equipment would be placed at major Internet backbone hubs in strategic locations like Washington, DC, the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles. The large defense and intelligence consulting and engineering firm Booz,Allen&Hamilton has not only developed the FBI's Carnivore capability but it has assisted the bureau in ensuring that all telecommunications companies engineer their systems to ensure they are "wiretap friendly." (See Cointelpro) (-> Booz, Allen & Hamilton )