>The venerable DIRT remote interception program,
>first reported here in 1998, is now offering an anti-
>firewall feature that will spoof all known firewalls
>and allow an investigator to get inside a violated
>computer, to hide behind a simulated firewall icon,
>and then to rummage undetected, to install a keystroke
>and passphrase sniffer, to plant file ID tags in
>documents, issue covert commands, and so on,
>as originally offered by the gov-only program.
>
>Someone in gov got a restricted copy of DIRT's
>presentation and passed it along for public
>education on what the outlaw cops, judges and
>spooks are up to:
>
> http://cryptome.org/dirty-secrets2.htm
A quote from the presentation:
>D.I.R.T.TM is a software program that operates on any PC with a Windows operating
>system.
Conclusion: (assuming that this is true)
If you are still using a PC running Windows, and it is connected to the net, you are
not really concerned about security.
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-- Marshall
Marshall Clow Idio Software <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning.
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