Re: FBI announcement on email search 'Carnivore'

[Eugene Leitl]

David Honig writes:

 > For $500/monthly you too can have a box in various NAPs.  You can
 > run your NIC in Bill Clinton mode, e.g., to measure certain
 > things about traffic.   I know of a corporation doing this (they
 > are only interested in infrastructure traffic, not content).

I know of a (deceased) person who has been running such a promiscuous
NIC for the purpose of IRC bot password interception. As a result he
took over a #channel...

Apropos IRC, is there anything on the horizont (apart from Fling),
which will at least use strong encryption for /dcc chat? Perhaps even
public-key authentication? Pointers welcome.