IP: Fwd: Carnivore? Yarnivore? Herbivore? Altivore?

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> 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
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> 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>