RSG
«Carnivore»

«Carnivore» is a surveillance tool for data networks [the United States intelligence agencies coined this software Carnivore—the ed.]. At the heart of the project is CarnivorePE, a software application that listens to all Internet traffic (email, web surfing, etc.) on a specific local network. Next, «CarnivorePE» serves this data stream to interfaces called «clients.» These clients are designed to animate, diagnose, or interpret the network traffic in various ways. Use «CarnivorePE» to run Carnivore clients from your own desktop, or use it to make your own clients. The «Carnivore Personal Edition Zero Client» (serial number RSG-CPE0C-1) was the first Carnivore Client. It was written in Perl by RSG and ran on the dumb terminal output of the first Carnivore Linux server—like a welcome screen. The audio is taken from the game Half-Life. The surveillance packets are simply printed to the screen left-to-right, top-to-bottom, in a pseudo random fashion.
Artists who became clients include Limiteazero, Joshua Davis/BrandenHall/Shapeshifter, Mark Napier, Cory Arcangel, Mark Daggett, Scott Sona Snibbe, Entropy8Zuper, Vuk Cosic, Golan Levin, MTAA, Lisa Jevbratt, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Witness, Marcos Wekamp, Area3