Date: 02.05.2002
From: RSG (rsg@rhizome.org)
Subject: Carnivore News Flash #6--Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client)

CARNIVORE
http://rhizome.org/carnivore

News Flash #6

During the weekend of February 1st 2002, delegates from the World 
Economic Forum arrived in the Midtown area of New York City. To greet 
them were thousands of protestors, themselves greeted by what the New 
York Times called a "stern police response." The police and the 
protesters generally kept the peace, with only 200 arrests and little 
violence. 

Meanwhile, in a different corner of the city, a small group of hackers, 
artists, and activists--or "hacktivists"--met to catch their breath, 
organize political materials, and of course check their email. They 
chose a venue unknown to the police, the Eyebeam center for media art on 
West 21st Street. They also chose their own security system, one that 
would protect the integrity of their sensitive computer communications. 

They chose Carnivore. 

Carnivore is an efficient data collection and analysis system used to 
monitor all forms of Internet communication. It is a premium service of 
Radical Software Group (RSG), the all-star collective of computer 
artists hand selected from cities around the world. Like the FBI 
software on which it's based, Carnivore is a non-invasive spying tool 
that collects email and web traffic from its local environment. Because 
Carnivore was installed last weekend in the same building where the 
hacktivists were checking their email, RSG was granted a unique 
perspective on the use of digital communications inside the protest 
zone. 

During the weekend of demonstrations the following organizations used 
the Eyebeam facilities: Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/), The 
"bike writer" group from MIT 
(http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html), Bureau 
of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org), Institute for Applied 
Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/), RTMark (http://rtmark.com), 
and The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/). It is not known how long each 
group used the facilities. Some simply visited, others used it often. 
However, once inside the Eyebeam surveillance zone, one hundred percent 
of the hacktivists's Internet communications were monitored by 
Carnivore.

Data collection itself is worth nothing without appropriate analysis. 
Thus, Carnivore offers superior diagnostics created by the world's 
leading software artists. For example Mark Napier, a New York artist, 
has released an analysis tool for Carnivore called "Black and White" 
(http://www.potatoland.org/blackwhite/). He used this tool to calculate 
the overall truth or falsity of the hacktivists's data. After several 
days of monitoring, their data was found to be %37 true and %63 false. 

Another diagnostic is called "Trigger Words." This tool records the 
frequency of sensitive words--words such as "nuclear" or "White House." 
After several days of monitoring, the hacktivists maintained a fairly 
mainstream communications vocabulary. For example, while the word 
"anarchy" was used 3 times, the word "freedom" was used 64 times. "Hate" 
scored a high 75, however it was outranked by "hope" with 138 instances. 
Several rare or unusual terms were also employed by the hacktivists at 
at least once during their weekend of web use. These include: kiwi, 
Fukuyama, and ninja (used 29 times!). Complete statistics appear at the 
end of this message.

If you are in search of an effective data collection and analysis 
solution, please try Carnivore. From schools to cybercafes to corporate 
offices, Carnivore brings meaning to information. Analysis tools are now 
available from Cory Arcangel/BEIGE, Mark Daggett, Josh Davis, 
Entropy8Zuper! and others. For more information, visit 
http://rhizome.org/carnivore

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DIAGNOSTIC TOOL
Trigger Words #2 (a Carnivore Client)

LOCATION
Eyebeam Atelier, 540 W. 21st Street, New York City

DURATION
Start time: 13:57:28 Jan 30, 2002
End time: 23:11:23 Feb 2, 2002

ANALYSIS SUBJECTS
Las Agencias (http://www.lasagencias.net/)
The "bike writer" group from MIT (http://architecture.mit.edu/~atmarcus/bikewriter/writer.html)
Bureau of Inverse Technology (http://bureauit.org)
Institute for Applied Autonomy (http://www.appliedautonomy.com/)
RTMark (http://rtmark.com)
The Yes Men (http://theyesmen.org/)

TRIGGER WORD      USAGE
-------------------------
Meta              2226
Sport             1151
Cards             975
Chan              826
York              611
Keywords          547
Global            446
Rsta              397
Privacy           369
Erco              326
Tools             282
Virtual           275
Ssor              258
Electron          240
Market            239
Import            232
Package           198
Secure            198
Rail              173
D-11              165
SHAPE             164
Society           161
Mexico            157
Bank              143
Rita              143
Hope              138
Vale              138
Solo              114
SORT              112
Passwd            106
Force             104
Guest             103
Chelsea           98
Jack              97
Mole              96
Angela            89
Contacts          87
Zone              87
Unix              86
Blocks            85
Osco              82
Edition           77
Hate              75
Government        73
Tiger             73
NTIS              72
Football          67
Dictionary        65
Consul            64
Freedom           64
Garbage           64
Qrss              59
Tokyo             58
Virus             56
JAVA              52
Austin            50
Quarter           50
Taiwan            50
Evil              48
Fish              47
Mega              46
Fake              45
Archives          44
Alex              43
Chosen            41
Mania             40
President         40
Resta             40
Smith             40
Cocaine           38
Police            38
South Africa      38
RENS              37
Golf              36
Centro            35
Dead              33
Executive         33
Jasmine           32
Texas             32
White House       32
Credit card       31
Honor             31
Harvard           30
Replay            30
Face              29
Ninja             29
Reno              28
Bronze            27
SERT              27
Nike              26
Bach              23
Beef              23
Buzzer            23
CIDA              23
Gorilla           23
Starr             23
Codes             22
Floss             22
Atlas             21
MSNBC             21
Gatt              20
Panama            20
Military          19
Basement          18
Schloss           18
Asset             16
Illuminati        16
Morgan            16
NASA              16
Threat            16
Aladdin           15
Soros             15
Trump             15
Spook             14
Anonymous         13
Dolch             13
Flame             13
Jackson           13
Rubin             13
Siemens           13
Advise            12
Debugging         12
Kiwi              12
ISEC              11
MISSI             11
NAIA              11
Porno             11
ISSO              10
Mace              10
Toad              10
AT&T              9
Cowboy            9
EADA              9
Stanley           9
DERA              8
ISPE              8
ISTA              8
Rhost             8
Submiss           8
CUSI              7
Fraud             7
JICA              7
Marx              7
Moore             7
Sweep             7
USSS              7
ASIS              6
CISE              6
Clone             6
Embassy           6
Lynch             6
Nuclear           6
Pixar             6
Platform          6
Stephanie         6
Unclassified      6
Baldwin           5
Captain           5
Goldman           5
Iris              5
Morse             5
Nash              5
Smuggle           5
Active X          4
ASIO              4
Bess              4
Cable & Wireless  4
Explicit          4
Gamma             4
LATA              4
Monica            4
Nitrate           4
Roswell           4
SAFE              4
SARA              4
Shelter           4
SLIP              4
Anarchy           3
Badger            3
CCSS              3
Daisy             3
Delta             3
Investigation     3
Larson            3
LITE              3
Maple             3
NIMA              3
Nowhere           3
NSES              3
PCMT              3
Playboy           3
Recon             3
SAAM              3
Tajik             3
Vanuatu           3
Advisors          2
Agfa              2
BECCA             2
Bluebird          2
CBOT              2
Csim              2
DDIS              2
Elvis             2
Embassy           2
IDEA              2
JICC              2
JOTS              2
Montenegro        2
Nuclear           2
Pirg              2
RAID              2
Razor             2
SORO              2
Spoke             2
Sweeping          2
Talent            2
USCODE            2
Varon             2
Yakima            2
Analyzer          1
Armani            1
ASTS              1
BIOL              1
Blackjack         1
Bootleg           1
Burns             1
Canine            1
CCSC              1
Chatter           1
Competitor        1
Dort              1
Encryption        1
Fetish            1
Forschung         1
Freeh             1
Fritz             1
Fukuyama          1
Goodwin           1
GOTS              1
Grom              1
Gulf              1
Hackers           1
HALO              1
Indigo            1
ISAF              1
IWIS              1
Kosovo            1
Lacrosse          1
Lander            1
LLNL              1
Loch              1
Locks             1
Mantis            1
Merlin            1
MOSAIC            1
NCSA              1
NLSP              1
NSAS              1
Ortega            1
OTAN              1
OTAT              1
Peapod            1
Press-release     1
Reflection        1
S511              1
Salsa             1
SARD              1
SART              1
Schengen          1
SFPD              1
Sneakers          1
SSCI              1
STEP              1
T2S2              1
Telex             1
TSCM              1
Veggie            1
VFCT              1
WWSV              1
Yukon             1
ZNI1              1