[Squishy] Re: Fw: [politics] Magic Lantern

[Paul Makepeace]

FBI Confirms 'Magic Lantern' Project Exists (see below for excerpt).
http://ww.commondreams.org/headlines01/1212-07.htm

Intriguingly, it seems there is Yet Another Gaping Hole In IE, a remote
compromise "feature" in Internet Explorer. Guess what? No patch as of
yet: maybe M$ was hoping to protect you by keeping things quiet about
the bug until they got around to fixing it,

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/172878.html

Or maybe they're already colluding with the FBI? Oops, sorry, perhaps
that should be "beta-testing covert surveillance deployment
strategy.NET".

Paul "call me a cynic" M



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Published on Wednesday, December 12, 2001 by Reuters

FBI Confirms 'Magic Lantern' Project Exists
by Elinor Mills Abreu

SAN FRANCISCO - 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.

``It is a workbench project'' that has not yet been deployed, said
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson. ``We can't discuss it because it's under
development.''

The FBI has already acknowledged that it uses software that records
keystrokes typed into a computer to obtain passwords that can be used
to read encrypted e-mail and other documents as part of criminal
investigations.

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