[lug] On NPR this morning

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 12-11 11:03, Jeff wrote:
> 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. :)

Maybe they could save the trouble of trying to infect machines, and send out
an open source tarball for us to install and modify. :) 

Post-Sep 11 attacks, I was giving some serious thought to signing up for the
FBI, both to give my support for my country as well as provide me with a
more stable job. Stuff like this makes me give pause, though. I know the
idea is to get the bad people, but this just seems like too wide of a net
(or could be, if people in power at FBI wanted to abuse it).

> 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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