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

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 pasward at big.uwaterloo.ca wrote:

> R. A. Hettinga writes:
>  > Everyone remember First Virtual's Nat Borenstein's "major discovery" of the
>  > keyboard logger?
>  >
>  > 'Magic Lantern' part of new 'Enhanced Carnivore Project'
>
>  > [etc]
>
> 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.
>
> Paul

If you are running a source secret operating system, it is more difficult
to detect tampering.

oo--JS.




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