A new tool of Fascist control Mon Jun 4 14:42:33 2001 disc.server/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=2288 Trojan lets cyber-cops plant bogus evidence By Thomas C Greene in Washington Posted: 04/06/2001 at 09:36 GMT A new tool of Fascist control, with which law-enforcement agents can secretly monitor the entire range of a suspects computer activity, has been developed by self-proclaimed computer surveillance experts Codex Data Systems, according to a document sent to Cryptome.org. The source here is a PowerPoint slide show, presumably by Codex PR bunnies, boasting of D.I.R.T.s amazing capabilities to violate in secret the last vestiges of civil protections from state oppression. Imagine being able to remotely monitor any PC in the world anytime you want, the company taunts. Suppose you could read every keystroke... Access and retrieve any file from the hard drive without having physical access... No more secrets... The company slide show is carefully crafted to generate maximum suspense among Feds and cops straining to find ways around such regrettable obstacles as civil rights. Thus a series of scenarios guaranteed to get the oppressive juices flowing: Scenario: You want to execute an Electronic No-Knock Search Warrant by stealth via the Internet to allow surreptitious remote seizure of digital evidence. What do you use? Scenario: Your undercover online investigator makes contact with a suspected pedophile in a chat room. Suspect sends illegal image(s). You now have probable cause. You want to remotely monitor suspect and seize additional evidence from his computer. What do you use? Scenario: Your investigation has determined that your suspects are using strong encryption to protect themselves. You need to crack encrypted and/or password protected e-mail and stored files. You dont have the time or money for a Brute Force attack. What do you use? The answer to all the above is, of course, D.I.R.T. And just what is D.I.R.T.? Why its a Trojan, pure and simple, which the Feds can feed to targets surreptitiously. It has a point-and-drool GUI and so functions very much like SubSeven on steroids. It doesnt crack crypto; it simply logs keystrokes, including, obviously, the users pass phrase. Crude, but effective. It also defeats all known firewalls, killing the running process, replacing the firewall icon, and allowing a stealth FTP connection. The D.I.R.T. client can be embedded in Word documents, Excel documents, PowerPoint presentations, RTF documents, Word Perfect documents, Autorun.bat on CD-ROMS and floppy disks, and, coming soon in a free upgrade, Lotus Suite, JavaScript and ActiveX. Better yet, D.I.R.T. is user friendly and can be operated by investigators with minimal computer skills, were told. Most grotesquely, it enables the Feds to plant bogus evidence on a suspects computer. Sending hidden code to the target PC is simple using the D.I.R.T. Bug Generator. Investigators need not have special computer code writing skills. Just point and click. A true tool of Fascism if ever we heard of one. And get this: the company discusses it with pride. Getting around it Protecting yourself from this diabolical program wont be easy. First, you need to monitor your comps processes. Anything persistent which you dont recognize/cant explain should result in an immediate re-format with files re-loaded from text-only sources. For *nix, see this document. For Windows, see this one. You should run Netstat regularly to monitor all of your active connections. And again, anything persistent which you dont recognize/cant explain should result in an immediate re-format with files re-loaded from text-only sources. A handy progie which will resolve strange IPs is the free version of
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