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Re: IP: Magic Lantern

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Fields)
Tue Nov 27 18:49:28 2001

Message-Id: <200111272307.fARN7pk05846@sparkle.generation.net>
To: pasward@big.uwaterloo.ca
Cc: Adam Fields <fields@surgam.net>,
	Gilles Gravier <Gilles.Gravier@Sun.com>,
	"R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, dcsb@ai.mit.edu,
	cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Adam Fields <fields@surgam.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:12:43 EST."
             <15364.4059.132013.274421@tolstoy.uwaterloo.ca> 
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:07:51 -0500


pasward@big.uwaterloo.ca says:
> On a slightly more serious note: given the multiplicity of software
> that has similar licence agreements, exactly how would you prove in
> court that it was the FBI's installed logger software that caused the
> problem?

It's possible that people savvy enough to be targeted by the FBI for
keystroke logging might have the wherewithal to configure some sort of
controlled signed honeypot for Magic Lantern (great - another thing
with the "ML" abbreviation), in which case it could be conclusively
proven.

Ouch.

				- Adam

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