[LINK] FBI targets suspects' pcs with spy virus

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Three years old???

Key logging is ancient in computing terms. The security experts must be
callow youths indeed. The first key-logger I saw ran under DOS. Can't
remember its name. I never imagined key logging to be something actually
>difficult<, after all.

Of course, it's perfectly feasible that the FBI is feeding a line to the
media for reasons best known to itself...

Richard Chirgwin

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Robertson-Dunn [mailto:brd@austarmetro.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2001 14:09
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Subject: Re: [LINK] FBI targets suspects' pcs with spy virus


Tony Barry wrote:
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> Extracted item provided for information.
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> Source:NewsScan Daily, 21 November 2001 ("Above The Fold")
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> FBI TARGETS SUSPECTS' PCs WITH SPY VIRUS

FBI snoop tool old hat for hackers 
By Robert Lemos
Staff Writer, CNET News.com 
November 21, 2001, 12:40 p.m. PT 
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7944351.html?tag=mn_hd

A new tool reportedly being developed by law enforcement agencies to
remotely install surveillance programs on a suspect's computer is little
more than 3-year-old hacking technology, security experts said Wednesday.

On Tuesday, MSNBC reported that the FBI was working on a computer "virus"
to install key-logging programs and other surveillance software onto a
suspect's computer. 

Yet if the details of the report are correct, the technique doesn't use a
virus, but a Trojan horse, a program that acts without the person's
knowledge. 
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