Scarfo "keylogger", PGP
Bram Cohen
bram at gawth.com
Mon Oct 15 16:05:59 EDT 2001
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> The other and more worrying "component" picked up the PGP key Scarfo used -
> his father's prison number! - and virtually nothing else.
Sounds like it was software and just recorded everything typed into the
PGP 'enter your password' dialog.
> Could it be remotely installed?
It's a windows box, do you really have to ask?
> Is this a serious security failure in PGP?
Almost certainly not. Applications can't be any more secure than their
operating system.
-Bram Cohen
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
-- John Maynard Keynes
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