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FBI Confirms Magic Lantern Existence

Posted by chrisd on from the aldous-would-be-proud dept.

The_THOMAS (and many others) writes: "A day after major anti-virus firms waffle on their support for 'Magic Lantern', and nine days after Thomas C Greene of The Register tried to throw cold water on it's existence, the FBI Confirms the 'Magic Lantern' Project Exist. Welcome to a Brave New World!"

2 of 461 comments (clear)

  1. Defeating Magic Lantern by nysus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think it's a relatively simple matter to be sure your keystrokes weren't being detected by the FBI.

    Step 1: Buy a laptop.
    Step 2: Buy a floppy disk
    Step 3: Do all your encryping on laptop
    Step 4: Ensure you never connect laptop to internet
    Step 5: Use the floppy to transfer disk to encrypted data to internet computer.
    Step 6: Send encrypted data

    No doubt that saavier criminals are already taking such precautions.

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    ---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.

  2. Makes me think... by CoolVibe · · Score: 1, Redundant
    If AV-companies will ignore the Magic Lantern trojan, what's stopping trojan/virus writers from mimicking the ML signature (or something) so that the AV package will ignore the trojan?

    This will leave a gaping hole in all AV setups I think. Makes me glad I'm running everything on FreeBSD here at home :-)