E-Detective Spy Tool Used By Police and Governments Has Major Security Holes

DavidGilbert99 writes: A controversial intercept tool called E-Detective from Taiwanese based company Decision Group has a major security hole which could allow a hacker to remotely execute code and read all the data captured by the software. Considering over 100 law enforcement agencies and governments around the world use E-Detective, this could be a big problem. According to the International Business Times story: "E-Detective works by 'sniffing the network' it is monitoring and captures data packets before sending them to be reassembled and decoded. Unlike other products E-Detective promises to 'reconstruct the data to its original format' for the end users so that it will be seen the same way that it was seen on the network. E-Detective also advertises as a network forensic tool for private enterprises to "protect sensitive data from data leakage".

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Re:All products of this type of shit

[Karmashock]

Hey bingo. So after threatening to come to my parents house and... what hurt my parents? You're now just continuing with your empty violent threats?

You want me to take you seriously so badly.

I feel for you bingo... I really do... but you're as likely to intimidate me as your dog is to impregnate that couch he's humping behind you. ;p

It ain't gonna happen. I'll never take you seriously. :)