[lug] On NPR this morning

[Jeff]

I also would like to see it work on some of the various flavors of
*nix.  Security in those platforms acutally means something.  However in
M$ products, as we have seen, means very little, if anything.  It
wouldn't be difficult to block/alter/minipulate the virus.  Send back
false hits, incorrect info, etc. :)

Jeff

Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> On 12-11 10:03, Scott A. Herod wrote:
> > Actually, the business report on KUVO.
> >
> > There was a bit this morning about the FBI proposing to
> > write an email trojan horse that would infect computers
> > and send them encryption passwords.  If I saw the story
> > on the web I'd discount it.  Has anyone seen the story
> > crop up somewhere else?  I figured slashdot would have
> > it but saw nothing since Sunday.  Perhaps it is time to
> > finally start signing emails and encrypting stuff.
> 
> It actually popped up twice on Slashdot, I believe...over a week ago. Once
> for each major virus "protection" program that decided to opt out of
> scanning for it. I put "protection" in quotes because that's now a rather
> dubious claim. I think the articles did point out that at least so far, only
> Windoze and related virii-spreading tools will be impacted at the beginning
> - I think "infecting" my FreeBSD box via Mutt will be an interesting
> challenge to say the least. :)
> 
> However, I am reminded of that quote about the Nazis - something like "First
> they came for the Blacks, then the Communists...by the time they came for
> me, there was no one left to speak out"
> 
> And weren't we trying to get hacking classified as terrorism post-Sep 11? If
> the FBI is engaging in this, wouldn't they be engaging in terrorism (if
> hacking gets classified as such)?
> 
> All the posturing last week from Leaky Leahy last week about military
> tribunals - that's not even an issue, IMHO. The kind of stuff the FBI is
> doing/proposing against CITIZENS should be the topic at hand - not suspected
> non-citizen terrorists that are here on student visas that fit a certain
> profile(no, not RACIAL profiling!!!) being detained. Talk about misguided.
> 
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