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Re: Shades of FV's Nathaniel Borenstein: Carnivore's "Magic Lantern"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay D. Dyson)
Wed Nov 21 17:00:59 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:56:34 -0800 (PST)
From: "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 pasward@big.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> > Everyone remember First Virtual's Nat Borenstein's "major discovery"
> > of the keyboard logger?
> >
> > 'Magic Lantern' part of new 'Enhanced Carnivore Project'
>
> 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.
As much as this will sound like a panacean suggestion, I'd say the
best way to avoid being a victim of this sort of attack is to dump Windows
and utilize Linux (or Solaris x86) with a GUI front end. With the advance
of *nix GUIs and the advent of utility suites such as Sun Microsystems'
Star Office, I've long since abandoned any justification to continue using
the Microsoft Windows operating system and office-oriented applications.
Yet another reason why Open Source is your friend.
-Jay
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