--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com X-ROUTED: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:35:58 -0500 X-TCP-IDENTITY: Bucsplace Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:30:29 -0400 From: oldbat <bucsplace@cchat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: IP <ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com> Subject: IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy] Sender: owner-ignition-point@majordomo.pobox.com Precedence: list Reply-To: oldbat <bucsplace@cchat.com> From: "Bill Prince" <webprince@SPAMmindspring.com> Newsgroups: misc.survivalism Subject: new threat to privacy Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:14:54 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <6t9bu9$spm$1@camel15.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kbbqr.dialup.mindspring.com X-Server-Date: 10 Sep 1998 20:14:01 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Path: news.dx.net!news.accessus.net!news2.rdr.net!news-out.internetmci.com!news.intern etMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!4.1.16.34!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bb nplanet.com!firehose.mindspring.com!not-for-mail There is another powerful tool for surreptitiously intercepting data, but it is only available to law enforcement and the military. Called DIRT (Data Interception and Remote Transmission), it was released in June by Codex Data Systems. http://www.thecodex.com/dirt.html Investigators need only know your e-mail address to secretly install the program. Once they do, investigators can read your documents, view your images, download your files and intercept your encryption keys. DIRT was developed to assist law enforcement in pedophilia investigations, but future uses could include drug investigations, money laundering cases and information warfare. - - Bill Prince | Orlando, Florida | Linuxori te salutamus! Take out the SPAM to email me! - - --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'