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  1. drf   21 years ago

    CINCUS ("sink us") - for the pacific fleet in the early days of WWII before it was renamed CINCPAC...

  2. Neil Block   21 years ago

    Clinton sorta-kinda officially admitted to the existence of the Carnivore program, which was a joint project between the NSA and one of the MI branches in Britain.

    Luckily for those orgs, though, they changed the name to Echelon and it is more comprehensive than ever, including capability to monitor cell phone and more modern info traffic, with recording and tracing automatically responding to keywords or phrases (including the words "bomb" and "president" in the same sentence, for instance).

    But since it's a "covert" program, they can't use it in real trials, because of that pesky 4th Amendment. Yet, at least...

  3. Mason   21 years ago

    Carnivore (recently renamed DCS-2000) has nothing to do with Eschelon -- at least, not in the way you're thinking. It's basically a bigass packet sniffer at the ISP or backbone level.

  4. Eryk Boston   21 years ago

    Not nearly as funny as the origional name for the federal DOE: the Department Of Public Education

  5. Malak,   21 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! God I love you people.

  6. hydroman   21 years ago

    Seems very appropriate for the GOV.

  7. trainwreck   21 years ago

    Are they in the same building as the Ministry of Silly Walks?

  8. Rick Barton   21 years ago

    Malak,

    What brought that on? Did Canada just win a medal or something?

  9. Rick Barton   21 years ago

    It's a saving grace for us that the government has no marketing sense. Remember when they named that monstrosity that would read everyone's email, "Carnivore"?

  10. Jeff   21 years ago

    Now we need an acronym for WOO HOO.

  11. rst   21 years ago

    Remember when they named that monstrosity that would read everyone's email, "Carnivore"?

    Marketing sense had nothing to do with it. They weren't calling it Carnivore to sell it to you, but to intimidate you. Your tax dollars already bought Carnivore, and you didn't have a choice in the matter.

  12. Rick Barton   21 years ago

    rst,

    I thought that they rescinded, or at least rolled back, the monstrosity. Also, didn't they change the name?

  13. Malak,   21 years ago

    Medal for what? Oh yeah, Olympics. Yawn . . .

  14. Douglas Fletcher   21 years ago

    That doesn't seem dumb enough to come from the DC government. Really, I expect much dumber things from them.

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