Carnivore

United States FBI software tool that allows the FBI in cooperation with Internet Service Providers to comply with court orders requiring the collection of certain information about e-mails or other electronic information to or from a specific user. Carnivore was originally known as Omnivore and later was transitioned into Carnivore when moving from Solaris X86 operating systems to Windows NT operating systems.

Unclassified documents about carnivore can be found through http://www.epic.org.

Also see: DCS1000, ECHELON, Security definitions

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