Trojan Horse developers indicted

[DoYouEverWonder]

Mar. 5, 2006

The Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office on Sunday filed a 65-page indictment against the creators and distributors of the Trojan Horse spy program, but announced at the same time that it had reached a plea bargain arrangement with the defendants.

"There is a plea bargain arrangement with Ruth and Michael Haephrati, but the prosecution usually presents the agreement to the court, and this is what we will do in this case as well," said Attorney Haim Wismonsky, senior deputy to the Tel Aviv District Attorney (Criminal Affairs.)

Wismonsky said he would reveal the agreement to Tel Aviv District Court next week. He told reporters that the defendants, Ruth and Michael Haefrati, had confessed to most of the charges against them.

In the indictment, the Haephratis were accused of developing a program known as the Trojan Horse, which was capable of revealing many details of the contents of others' computers which it has infiltrated. Michael Haefrati developed and refined the program, while his wife, Ruth, marketed it and maintained contact with several private investigation companies which bought it and installed it in the computers of its clients' rivals.

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[TomInTib]

1. Plea bargain?...

Shoot them on wordwide television.

And continue to do the same to every creator of every virus, worm, etc. who is caught and convicted until the shit stops.

[rfranklin]

2. May I suggest execution as the death sentence?

their crime is equal to homicide.

[TheBaldyMan]

3. I'd destroy their souls: make them work maintenance at Micro$oft

truly a fate worse than death. They'll be begging to be put out of their misery after a few months at Redmond.

[lovuian]

4. Well looks like the Trojan Horse destroyed its owners

its a fable that never gets old!!!

[darkism]

5. I hope the people calling for death are being facetious.

If I wanted nutty, right-wing neofascist hyperbole, I'd go to broadbandreports.com.

[meganmonkey]

7. Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

Where are we? :crazy:

[patdem]

6. I was wondering why my spy ware had quit finding Trojan Horse

viruses...now I know! TOO KOOL!

[Garbo 2004]

8. Trojan malware is still very much out there. This case is about a specific

spyware software sold by this couple in Israel, that's all. Trojan malware is still "in the wild" and this case does nothing to change that.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. This case isn't about the software.

What happened is this couple who created this softwear was using it to spy on their own clients. That is what they were indicted for.

[Garbo 2004]

10. Right. But the person I was responding to seemed to think that their

program was no longer detecting trojan horse malware because they were no longer around to detect. Certainly not the case.

[sofa king]

11. Is it perhaps related to this?

(In a decidedly non-Dubai move,) US Government blocks sale of SourceFire to CheckPoint:
http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=4030

CheckPoint also acquired Zone Labs, maker of Zone Alarm firewall, which may already be spying on you:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29157
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/13/73792_03OPcringley_1.html

CheckPoint is also based in Israel. Coincidence?