Date: 12.19.2001
From: RSG (rsg@rhizome.org)
Subject: Carnivore News Flash #4--Mark Napier releases "Black and White" Client

CARNIVORE
http://rhizome.org/carnivore

News Flash #4

The RSG is pleased to announce the third public Carnivore Client: "Black 
and White" (http://www.potatoland.org/blackwhite) by Mark Napier. 

Is the Internet mostly zeros or mostly ones? This is the question 
answered by Napier's client. "Black and White" plots a cloud formation 
based on the total number of zeros and ones in Carnivore's binary data 
stream. The zeros appear in black, while the ones appear in white. Thus, 
by keeping track of the total number of zeros and ones, "Black and 
White" aims to compute a statistical average for Internet traffic. 

Internet Explorer recommended.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Carnivore is a networked art project in two parts. The first part is 
Carnivore Server, an application which performs packet-sniffing on a 
specific local area network and serves the resulting data stream via the 
net. The second part consists of an unlimited number of client 
applications which tap into this data stream and interpret it in 
creative ways.

+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
|                                            |
+     +------+                               +
|    /      /|          /------------\       |
+   +------+ |         /...internet...\      +
|   |      | |         |............+----+   |
+   | data |<--------->|............|user|   +
|   |      | |    ^    |............+----+   |
+   |      |/     |    |..............|      +
|   +------+      |    \............../      |
+                 |     \------------/       +
|                 |                          |
+            +---------+                     +
|            |CARNIVORE|                     |
+            +---------+                     +
|                                            |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+

http://rhizome.org/carnivore
http://www.potatoland.org/blackwhite