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Re: private-sector keystroke logger...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Tue Nov 27 18:53:22 2001

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 17:55:36 -0600 (CST)
From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Cc: pasward@big.uwaterloo.ca, "Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@treachery.net>,
	Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Ben Laurie wrote:

> Yeah right - so it sets up an outgoing connection to some webserver to
> pass on the info. Firewall that.

Easy, have your firewalling software keep a list of all the connections
you allow. Each time a connection to a machine not on the list occurs it
asks for permission, if you give it then it goes on the list. Couple this
will a sniffer on the outside of the firewall to look for probes.


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