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What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware

Posted by Zonk on from the i-always-feel-like-somebody's-watching-me dept.

StonyandCher writes "What is CIPAV? CIPAV stands for 'Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier'; a lengthy term for powerful spyware the Federal Bureau of Investigation can bring to bear on web-based crime. It was used last month in a case where someone was emailing bomb threats regularly to a Washington high school. An affidavit by an FBI agent revealed some of the workings of CIPAV. 'According to the court filing, this is [some of] what the CIPAV collects from the infected computer: IP address, Media Access Control address for the network card, List of open TCP and UDP ports, List of running programs ... Last visited URL. Once that initial inventory is conducted, the CIPAV slips into the background and silently monitors all outbound communication, logging every IP address to which the computer connects, and time and date stamping each.' In a Computerworld article, the author attempts to dissect CIPAV's purpose and raises a number of questions such as: What happens to the data the CIPAV collects? Does the CIPAV capture keystrokes? Can the CIPAV spread on its own to other computers, either purposefully or by accident? Does it erase itself after its job is done?"

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  1. Re:does it... by NathanWoodruff · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Again, your lack of knowledge is astounding. The latest release of OS/2 was last year(2006). There is another release scheduled for the end of this year or the beginning of next.

    I can find support for almost every add on card on the shelf right now at CompUSA or BestBuy. As a matter of fact, I was adding SATA drives to an older computer of mine and bought an off the shelf CompUSA SATA add in card. The DANI drivers from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/ supported it.

    The USB drivers for OS/2 support my Linksys 200M wireless USB Ethernet adapter to.

    To further your knowledge on OS/2 why don't you try a live CD of the latest release of OS/2 http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/ It runs on every computer I have tried here at work. Why don't you download it and try to find a computer that it won't run on.

    Sometimes I think it is funny the lack of knowledge people exhibit about OS/2 and then claim to be an authority on it.

    Your lack of knowledge is just sad.

    Nathan