Is Carnivore a network of black-boxes deployed throughout the Internet? Is Carnivore an unrestrained wiretap of the entire Internet?
No. This type of widespread monitoring is not allowed by law. To install a Carnivore box, the FBI must have a court order specifying exactly what is to be monitored (e.g. email contents), for exactly who monitoring will take place (e.g. email address), and is limited for how long the box may be in place. Furthermore, the ISP does not have to accept a Carnivore box if they can satisfy the search warrant using their own means. Carnivore is only used when the ISP cannot satisfy the search warrant. As of August 2000, the FBI had roughly only 20 Carnivore boxes. These boxes are stored in Quantico, Virginia. They are only used in specific cases under court order. The courts do not allow any one box to be in place for more than a month or two. Furthermore, these boxes are rarely placed on ISP backbones, but usually close to the servers they are designed to monitor. For paranoids: This is not a satisfactory answer for paranoids who believe that government does not follow its own laws, so let m
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