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Ashcroft proposes vast new surveillance powers
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
A sweeping new anti-terrorism
bill drafted by the Justice Department would dramatically increase
government electronic surveillance and data collection abilities...
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FBI Confirms `Magic Lantern' Project Exists
By Elinor Mills Abreu
Wed, Dec 12 6:08 PM EST
SAN
FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An FBI spokesman confirmed on Wednesday
that the U.S. government is working on a controversial Internet spying
technology, code-named "Magic Lantern", which could be used to eavesdrop
on computer communications by suspected criminals.
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MSNBC quotes unnamed sources who says that
Magic Lantern could be sent to a target by email or planted on a suspect's
PC by exploiting common operating system vulnerabilities.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
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World’s Top Cop
Attorney General
John Ashcroft
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"..to those who scare
peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this:
Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity
and diminish our resolve"
John Ashcroft Dec 5 2001
Symantec chief
researcher Eric Chien stated that provided a hypothetical keystroke logging
tool was used only by the FBI, Symantec would avoid updating its antivirus
tools to detect such a Trojan, echoing a similar stance Network Associates
allegedly took with its McAfee anti-virus software earlier
this week.
http://stashdot.com//
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World’s Richest Man
Microsoft’s
Bill Gates
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If you're running MS Windows while connected
to the Internet your life is an open file.
1.] Windows is
a very insecure system when it comes to viruses, worms, spam and spyware
in general. Any honest computer security expert will tell you that
MS Windows is as full of holes as Swiss cheese. Bill Gates couldn't
keep spyware out of your computer even if he wanted to.
2.] Microsoft has
already used spyware to surreptitiously scan your hard drive and
report back what it found when you register the product on-line.
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Some spyware has been shown to send out detailed
personal information gleamed from your computer.
3.] You probably already
have spyware on your computer now, sending your personal information
back to it's corporate masters. According to PC Magazine, April 22,
2003 "it's lurking on your machine." They say "Our tests clearly showed
that even if you don't use file sharing, chances are good that your system
is infested with various spyware components."
4.] Microsoft just might be willing to `work'
with the government to put `Ashcroftware' on your computer. Do you
trust Bill Gates enough to be sure he won't? After all, they've already
been caught with their hands in the cookie jar before and Ashcroft's
Justice Department let them off rather leniently. How do we know they
won't do a deal with the Governement, if they haven't already?
5.] How do we know what's in their software when
the source code is sercet?
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