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Carnivore

Carnivore is a "network diagnostic tool" or "sniffer" type of tools created by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assist in crime investigations. It is a software running on Windows OS. Carnivore is similar to other commercial network sniffers tools, except that Carnivore has drawn special attention, however, because of the large amount of Internet traffic, it is capable of capturing. The FBI typically installs Carnivore in an ISP data center when investigating individuals suspected of federal crimes.

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