hey guys! the king of paranoia is back with another post that EVERYBODY has an opinion on and i want all of them. Many of you know alot more about this topic than i do so plz excuse me if i sound like an idiot!lol! OK now....the us goverment has active spyware spying on supposed terrorists and whoever else they want, the latter is just speculation. Carnivore is a basically a internet traffic filter that has only openly been used in cooperation with ISPs who choose to cooperate, all ISPs have a choice whether to cooperate or not but they have to provide the necessary info that the goverment requests, if they cant do that, then they dont have a choice about carnivore.
Magic lantern, is basically a goverment funded trojan.period.
Echelon(i know i have the name wrong) is used for foreign spying, if u live in europe, i hear echelon has had the most controversy there too, the us goverment has been accused of using it for industrial espionage,the truth of these accusations im not sure of.
Omnivore I think is a seperate predessor to carnivore, but im not sure because ive been told that omnivore is the name of the suite of spyware that they all belong in.
Now dont get me wrong the US goverment isnt the only one with spyware but do u want the goverment spying on you? is it just for security and therefore necessary? I want your opinions.

again the above is just how I understand them, i dont know eerything on the subject, so if any of you wold like to enlighten me i would be open.