Are You Being 'Snooped'?

[dArKeR]

Electronic privacy advocates and law enforcement are growing more worried by the availability of computer technology known as "snoopware," which could be used by criminals to monitor a person's computer usage.

The devices in question could allow someone to use the Internet to see the screen you see, log your keystrokes and even activate your computer's Webcam, The New York Times reports.

That means someone you don't know could find out what you last typed and see what you are wearing today.

"Anybody who routinely uses a computer that isn't their own ought to be thinking, 'Who's looking over my shoulder?'" Ross Stapleton-Gray, a computer consultant, told The Times.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/03/tech/main571296.shtml

And those of you who are using your brains might be able to figure out that the FBI and CIA have had this ability for at least 5 years.

[Booberdawg]

1. Damn folks! Better stop sitting naked at the puter!!

[impeach the gop]

2. tee hee hee

:-) If it's good fer the goose! Gander might just better be good! Gottcha works both ways.

[Eloriel]

3. My computer's webcam?

My computer's WEBCAM?

When did I get a webcam?

Eloriel

[dbt]

4. WHICH criminals are we talking about here?

The ones who steal your money or the ones who steal your White House?

:evilgrin:
dbt

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Never fear, AdAware is here...

...and it's a free download:
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/
This software seeks out spyware on your computer and deletes it (kinda like Norton Antivirus but instead of removing viruses, it removes adware and spyware).

[SteveG]

14. AdAware is good but you also need

Spybot Search a nd Destroy. It cleans up what AdAware misses (and vice versa) You also want either Zone alarm and a hardware firewall if you have an always on connection

These are all free for home use.

[0007]

6. Interesting -

I believe the technology is there. But I also believe tools are only as effective as the person who uses them.

[kentuck]

7. My former employer had the technology...

As they were taping yur conversations, they were also following each keystroke. On backplay, you could watch ourself moving your mouse and everything you did while on the computer. The technology is there. Yhey called it "shadowing".

[dbt]

8. "Shadowing????"

As in "Shadow Government?"

:evilgrin:
dbt

[dutchdemocrat]

9. Google has a link for tons of spyware. Lot's cannot be detected

And some it's a simple as sending an email.

http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Security/Products_and_Tools/Monitoring/?il=1

[dArKeR]

24. I believe the CPU makers are in on it. There's code put in to allow

the US Gov. to take control of a PC without detection. I'm sure of it! I would be a dream for any spy agency but in fact I don't think it's very difficult to program into the code.

[0007]

10. Hey man, I like your icon

*

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Law enforcement is worried?

I'm worried about law enforcement.

[kodi]

12. i use spybot

.

[demgrrrll]

13. So they know I post in an old zippy the pin head tee shirt and big white

cotton drawers?. Damn, gonna have to start to dress a little better.
My employee handbook lets you know that every place that you surf on the net is recorded and can be viewed by the employer at any time.
Interesting.

[Wwagsthedog]

16. Link to Spybot?

n/t

[LiberalUprising]

17. Link to spybot

http://www.safer-networking.org/

[kodi]

18. here is the link

http://www.safer-networking.org/

[frustrated_lefty]

15. Magic Lantern

is one of the fed's keylogging tools, which can be remotely installed as a trojan. Symantec and other makers of virus detection tools have switched their previous positions, now taking the stance that they will NOT provide tools to detect Magic Lantern or Carnivore.

FBI spyware avoids scrutiny
Symantec Will Not Detect Magic Lantern

[cosmicdot]

19. TEMPEST software

has been around awhile ... I believe my former employer had it in the mid 90s ... to spy on employees ...

with the advances of ECHELON, CARNIVORE, Inslaw's PROMIS ... can't fathom where the technology is now



United States-TEMPEST

Reports have indicated the existence of another NSA project that is designed to capture computer signals (such as keystrokes or monitor images) through walls or from other buildings, even if the computers are not linked to a network. Details about this project, which is apparently codenamed TEMPEST, are only just becoming available. One NSA document, entitled "Compromising Emanations Laboratory Test Requirements, Electromagnetics", was prepared by the NSA's Telecommunications and Information Systems Security group. It describes test procedures for measuring the radiation emitted from a computer -- both through radio waves and through telephone, serial, network, or power cables attached to it. A second document the NSA released describes the agency's "Technical Security Program," which is responsible for assessing electronic security and providing "technical security facility countermeasures." Two subsequent research articles how the blinking patterns of LEDs and changes in the light intensity of cathode-ray tube displays, even from a distance, can allow someone to eavesdrop on the data passing through a given computer.

http://archive.aclu.org/echelonwatch/networks.html

The Complete, Unofficial
TEMPEST Information Page
Over six years of public disclosure, and one-stop shopping for TEMPEST info...

Across the darkened street, a windowless van is parked. Inside, an antenna is pointed out through a fiberglass panel. It's aimed at an office window on the third floor. As the CEO works on a word processing document, outlining his strategy for a hostile take-over of a competitor, he never knows what appears on his monitor is being captured, displayed, and recorded in the van below.

http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/tempest.html

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. for years now they have been able to hear everything said in your house

through the phone...hell you could even buy this technology at radio shack...my sister had it for years....if any house guests were staying at her house and she was at work she could simply dail a number and listen in on everything that was being said or going on (like draws or closets being opened) in her house....no phone had to ring ...no one needed to pick up the phone..it was some kind of home security thing...:shrug:...i imagine that the gov't has used it extensively

[cprise]

21. They can tell what radio stations you listen to

Radio 'sniffers' likened to fed e-surveillance

Story by Bob Brewin and Bob Brewin

MAY 29, 2000 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) - The privacy debate is likely to get more heated with the growing popularity of a wireless technology that detects which stations car radios are tuned to and feeds the information to advertisers via the Web.

Mobiltrak Inc., a Birmingham, Ala.-based start-up firm, says it can help focus an advertising campaign by ascertaining which radio stations potential customers listen to in the vicinity of retail outlets.

Mobiltrak uses FM radio "sniffers" that can detect, from several hundred feet away, the station to which a car radio is tuned. It can do that because every radio receiver is also a minitransmitter.

more
http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/retail/story/0,10801,45529,00.html

[dArKeR]

23. Amazing story!

[RainDog]

22. Are there free downloads for Mac?

I posted the other day because I got a pop-up saying I had spyware on my computer.

I went to the sites noted and downloaded, but they didn't do anything.

I ran my Norton Antivirus, and it didn't notice anything.

It would be really funny if the govt were noting me, imho. Not funny haha, but funny cause they should be focusing on threats to this country, not a mom with a videogame playing kid.

I assumed it was some corp. trying to decide how to market numerous products to my Zanic head.

[maggrwaggr]

25. it's okay, I'm wearing a George Bush mask!

and a bra.

[demgrrrll]

26. Ha Ha that makes me laugh and I needed a good laugh tonight. n/t.

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