Carnivore

2002

RSG (Radical Software Group) (US) (IT)

Prix Ars Electronica 2002: Golden Nica / Net Vision

Inspired by 'Carnivore,' the FBI’s e-mail surveillance system,
CarnivorePE, the surveillance tool developed by RSG, distributes
data flows to an unlimited number of creative
interfaces. RSG had no desire to merely copy the FBI software
with its many shortcomings. Instead, its aim was to
inject a new, progressive form of politics back into “packet
sniffing,” a fundamentally destabilizing and transformative
technology. It was necessary to come up with a new purpose
for the use for data surveillance, one that breaks out
of the hero/terrorist dilemma—after all, hackers are said to
be either one or the other. The dream of a future use of
networked data.

Carnivore Personal Edition / Radical Software Group
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