From: Matthew Gaylor (freematt@coil.com)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 09:36:42 MST
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 00:08:38 -0600
From: nnburk <nnburk@dtgnet.com>
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To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: Magic Lantern - The FBI's viral key-logger
Please feel free to distribute this far and wide:
Magic Lantern - The FBI's viral key-logger
- The Latest -
<http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0037.html>[ISN] FBI confirms
"Magic Lantern" project exists
<http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0039.html>[ISN] Infamous hacker
group helps the Feds
<http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0043.html>Re: [ISN] Infamous
hacker group helps the Feds - cDc calls announcement "satire"
<http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0053.html>Re: [ISN] Infamous
hacker group helps the Feds
<http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0064.html>[ISN] DIRT-Magic
Lantern Firm Barred from Gov Work
<http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0063.html>FBI may be getting
full benefit of Magic Lantern... from BadTrans.B
[ISN] FBI surveillance bonanza in BadTrans.B worm
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02955.html>From the "We don't need no
stinkin' oversight" dept.:
Politech: FBI refuses to tell Congress aide about "classified" Magic Lantern
<http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1108>Homeland
Security, Homeland Profits
Technology Already in the Hands of Law Enforcement
<http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=1092>FBI Software
Records Each Keystroke
<http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=1009>Software Firms
Object to FBI Eavesdropping
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/technology/ebusiness/31TECH.9.html>
Scarfo, Phase 2: a.k.a. "Magic Lantern"
CYBERSECURITY - Threat of Terrorism on U.S. Infrastructure (nytimes.com)
What is Magic Lantern?
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/660096.asp?cp1=1>FBI software cracks encryption wall
‘Magic Lantern’ part of new ‘Enhanced Carnivore Project’
<http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html>EPIC
Carnivore (and 'Enhanced Carnivore') FOIA Documents
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5099906,00.html>ZDNet
News: FBI's magic revealed as old tricks
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3371-2001Nov22.html>FB
I Is Building a 'Magic Lantern' (washingtonpost.com)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1436-2001Nov22.html>FB
I Develops Eavesdropping Tools (washingtonpost.com)
McAfee sides with FBI against customers on "Magic Lantern"
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02822.html>Declan McCullagh's Politech
FBI reportedly creating "Magic Lantern" anti-crypto virus
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02834.html>Declan McCullagh's Politech
McAfee sides with FBI against customers on "Magic Lantern"
<http://www.factsquad.org/radio/2001-11-26.mp3>The Spy in Your Computer? (.mp3)
from Fact Squad Radio
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02837.html>Declan McCullagh's Politech
Has McAfee sided with FBI on "Magic Lantern" detection?
<http://www.ct.heise.de/newsticker/data/wst-26.11.01-001/>Spokesman
for NAI in Germany disputes the Washington Post article
from the German news site "Heise Online"
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02839.html>Declan McCullagh's Politech
McAfee replies -- by denying any FBI contacts of any sort
<http://www.interesting-people.org/ob/htsearch?config=lists_elistx_com
&restrict=%2Finteresting-people%2F&method=and&sort=score&words=%22magi
c+lantern%22>"Magic Lantern" Discussion
from Dave Farber's Interesting-People elist
<http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=mcafee>Declan
McCullagh's Politech
Background on McAfee/NAI
<http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48648,00.html>Wired News Summary
'Lantern' Backdoor Flap Rages, By Declan McCullagh
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02840.html>Declan McCullagh's Politech
AP's Ted Bridis replies to McAfee: "I stand by my reporting"
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02846.html>Declan McCullagh's Politech
McAfee broadens denial: No contact with government of any sort
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/23057.html>AV vendors split
over FBI Trojan snoops
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02851.html>Declan McCullagh's Politech
Symantec pledges to acquiese to FBI backdoor demands
<http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=lantern>Politech
Summary re: "Magic Lantern"
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23150.html>FBI 'Magic
Lantern' reality check (original article picked up by ISN, below)
<http://lists.jammed.com/ISN/2001/12/0015.html>[ISN] Magic Lantern
reality check
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7944351.html?tag=rltdnws>FBI
snoop tool old hat for hackers
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2829781,00.html>Warn
ing - The FBI knows what you're typing
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100528,00.html>Antivir
us firms: FBI loophole is out of line
<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011210/tc/attack_tech_dc.html>Antiv
irus Firms Say They Won't Create FBI Loophole
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02914.html>Politech: Symantec, McAfee
backpedal furiously on espionage enabled-software
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-02918.html>Politech: More on Symantec,
McAfee, loopholes, and espionage-enabled 'ware
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8134814.html?tag=rltdnws>Antivir
us firms balk at FBI loophole
Existence of Magic Lantern Confirmed by FBI
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-8160201.html?tag=mn_hd>FBI
confirms "Magic Lantern" project exists
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100652,00.html>FBI
confirms Net spying tool exists
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/1127639>Infamous hacker group helps the Feds
[this one may be nothing more than humor or hoax... on the other
hand, the related article: <http://www.vnunet.com/News/87346>Back
Orifice just a phantom seems (at first glance) to be consistent with
other articles regarding BO2K.]
Magic Lantern's Closest Relatives?
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2072609,00.html>ZDNet: Back Orifice 2.0
<http://pcrev.com/articles/trojan/pindex.shtml>Back Orifice
(incorrectly referred to in this article as "Back Office") and other
trojans
<http://www.vnunet.com/News/87346>Back Orifice just a phantom
<http://www.codexdatasystems.com/>D.I.R.T. - A prototype for Magic Lantern?
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19480.html>Or is D.I.R.T. a S.C.A.M?
<http://cryptome.org/dirty-secrets2.htm>Dirty Secrets 2 - Data
Interception by Remote Transmission
<http://jya.com/DIRT-spy.htm>D.I.R.T. being used to grab PGP keys as
early as 1998
<http://www.keylogger.net/>Ghost - A Software Keylogger
<http://www.keykatcher.com/>KEYKatcher - Hardware Keyloggers
Can we trust LEAs?
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-00624.html>Illegal LAPD wiretaps -- for
shame! by John Gilmore
<http://www.politechbot.com/p-00628.html>More on LAPD and illegal wiretaps
<http://speakout.com/activism/opinions/4377-1.html>Will the
Government Know What You Type?
<http://www.onmagazine.com/on-mag/reviews/article/0,9985,12609,00.html
>The Privacy Snatchers
<http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/>The Electronic Privacy
Information Center's extensive resources on wiretapping cases
<http://cryptome.org/dirty-secrets.htm>US Ambassador on Corruption
Within Security Forces
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/646793.asp?cp1=1>First, brand all the children...
By Brock N. Meeks
Potential ways to detect (or protect against) Magic Lantern?
<http://spycop.com>Spycop
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Hills/8839/utils.html>Hook
Protect or PC Security Guard
Warning: This page contains a possible "web bug" per Bugnosis
<http://www.stiller.com>Integrity Master from Stiller Research
<http://www.openantivirus.org/>OpenAntiVirus Project
<http://www.gnupg.org/>GnuPG (The GNU Privacy Guard)
<http://www.jetico.com/>Jetico's BestCrypt
<http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/go.shtml?A660528>Evidence Eliminator
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