Shades of FV's Nathaniel Borenstein: Carnivore's "Magic Lantern"

[Greg Broiles]

At 10:40 AM 11/21/2001 -0500, pasward at big.uwaterloo.ca wrote:

>In the same vein, but a different application, does anyone know what
>the state of the art is for detecting such tampering?  In particular,
>when sitting at a PC doing banking, is there any mechanism by which a
>user can know that the PC is not corrupted with such a key logger?
>The last time I checked, there was nothing other than the various
>anti-virus software.

I have not used them, but you might find these of interest, all for Windows 
systems -

Spycop <http://spycop.com>
Hook Protect or PC Security Guard 
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/8839/utils.html>

I note that the latter URL loads a page which Bugnosis 
<http://www.bugnosis.org> identifies as containing possible "web bug" 
single-pixel images and complicated cookies.


--
Greg Broiles -- gbroiles at parrhesia.com -- PGP 0x26E4488c or 0x94245961
5000 dead in NYC? National tragedy.
1000 detained incommunicado without trial, expanded surveillance? National 
disgrace.




---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at wasabisystems.com