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FC: D.I.R.T. spyware exposed on web, by Kevin Poulsen

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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 But Jones downplayed the significance of the leak, dismissing the documents as outdated and obsolete, and emphasizing that the program won't run properly without the would-be user entering a valid serial number -- which is not including in the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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