[FYI] (Fwd) FC: D.I.R.T. spyware exposed on web, by Kevin Poulsen

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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The now-offline website:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~usura/DiRT/

Earlier Politech message on DIRT:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02116.html

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http://online.securityfocus.com/news/354

D.I.R.T. Spyware Exposed on Web

   Software marketed as a computer surveillance tool for law
   enforcement investigators has its secrets laid bare on an anonymous
   Web site. By Kevin Poulsen Mar 14 2002 1:30AM PT A closely-held
   software package designed to allow law enforcement agencies to
   secretly monitor a suspect's computer turned up on an anonymous Web
   site in the Netherlands Wednesday, along with user manuals,
   financial information, contracts and invoices apparently stolen
   from the company that makes the surveillance tool. Frank Jones,
   founder of New York-based Codex Data Systems, blamed unnamed
   critics in the security and hacking community for the exposure of
   his company's spyware product, called D.I.R.T. (Data Interception
   by Remote Transmission). But Jones downplayed the significance of
   the leak, dismissing the documents as outdated and obsolete, and
   emphasizing that the program won't run properly without the
   would-be user entering a valid serial number -- which is not
   including in the trove of purloined files.

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