Salon: Defanging Carnivore Sep 25, 2000, 12 :25 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (2490 reads) (Other stories by Sean Dugan)
"Graham is the CTO of NetworkICE, a security company he
co-founded with Greg Gilliom and Clinton Lum to provide
"anti-hacking" services such as intrusion detection software.
Given his family background and his own interests, one could
understand that Graham might be interested in anything related to
cyber-snooping. But on Tuesday Graham took his involvement to
a whole new level, inserting himself directly into the middle of the
charged debate over Carnivore -- the FBI's much-maligned
system for spying on the e-mails of suspected criminals."
"Graham released to the general public the
source code to "Altivore," a program that
mimics all the capabilities of Carnivore. Part
protest against Carnivore's potential for
invasions of privacy and part defensive
measure aimed at subverting Carnivore,
Altivore is the latest escalation of the ongoing
battle over just how much privacy we can
expect in cyberspace...."
"A: Is it accurate to characterize Altivore as open-source
software?"
"A: That depends on someone's open-source definition. Right now,
we're holding the copyright close to our chest because there are
so many open-source licenses out there to choose from. Right
now, we're basically just "copyright: us." I think we're looking at
the BSD license, rather than the GPL license."
