Enhanced Carnivore To Crack Encryption Via Virus

suqur writes: "MSNBC has a story about a new Carnivore feature, dubbed 'Magic Lantern,' which arrives on a victim's computer in the form of a virus through email or well-known vulnerabilities. Magic Lantern uses keylogging to extract keys typed in, and sends them off to the FBI. This is similar to a story reported on previously, but taken one step further, allowing computers to be compromised remotely."

Comments

Re:Legal?

[Tackhead]

> Does this mean it will now be illegal to use a secure system? Having any type of security/virus protection will be circumvention of law-enforcing software.

More to the point, what about the poor bastard who sees it showing up on his firewall and says "Hey, what the hell's this, and shuts it down?

Oh, I get it, the FBI's only smart enough to catch the stupid criminals.

I feel safer already.

Re:You have got to be kidding.

[Davorama]

Where are my moderation points when I need them? This should be up at the top. Puhlease people, this is pretty ludicrous