What’s in a Name? FBI takes the teeth out of Carnivore’s name: ‘The FBI has dressed its online wolf in sheep’s clothing, changing the name of its
controversial e-mail surveillance system, known to this point as Carnivore.

Carnivore now goes by the less beastly moniker of DCS1000, drawn from the work it does as a
“digital collection system.” The investigative agency built the tool to monitor the Internet
communications of suspects under its surveillance, but the system, housed on computers at
Internet service providers, also can collect e-mail messages from people who are not part of an
FBI probe.’ CNet.com