IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy]

[Robert Hettinga]

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From: "Bill Prince" <webprince at SPAMmindspring.com>
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Subject: new threat to privacy
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:14:54 -0400
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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.

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Bill Prince | Orlando, Florida |
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Take out the SPAM to email me!
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at 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'