Not new -- there are categories for such 'ware at Google and Yahoo, last I checked. As for the serial connection, the FBI claimed that's exactly what they weren't looking at -- instead, they were snatching his keystrokes. -Declan On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:23:33AM -0600, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:

Boy, the interesting things you turn up when doing a reasonably unrelated search. The first hit for googling "spy serial connection" is:

http://www.passwordspy.com/

Think the fibbies used this on that gangsta guy? ;)

BTW, I'm looking for a convenient method to intercept data to/from a serial port. Got a piece of hardware I'm trying to reverse- engineer, and I'd rather avoid writing a custom serial driver. Any ideas? -- Roy M. Silvernail Proprietor, scytale.com roy@scytale.com

On Tue, Oct 30, at 10:23AM, Roy M. Silvernail wrote: | BTW, I'm looking for a convenient method to intercept data to/from | a serial port. Got a piece of hardware I'm trying to reverse- | engineer, and I'd rather avoid writing a custom serial driver. Any | ideas? http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/sersniff.html sersniff is a simple program to tunnel/sniff between 2 serial ports. -- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer --On the eve of Britain's entry into World War II: "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.