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

[pasward at big.uwaterloo.ca]

Jay Sulzberger writes:
 > 
 > 
 > 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.

I'm sure it is, unless you have to be the company that owns the
"source-secret operating system," in which case you can presumably do
whatever is done by an open-source system.  Now, what (beyond AV and
tripwire) is done?

Paul



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