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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No surprise

[gweihir]

This just demonstrates that states attacking computers and placing backdoors does massively more damage than could ever be compensated by any possible benefits. Hence it is one of the most stupid things to do and only desired and done bu people that really have no clue or do not care how much damage they do. Usually the latter type of person is called "evil", and with good justification.