[I hope McAfee will clarify what's going on. Babelfish translates: "Network Associates speaker Alexander Wegner explained opposite heise on-line, an appropriate report the Washington post office corresponds not to the truth..." --Declan] --- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:35:58 -0800 From: Joachim Feise <jfeiseat_private> Organization: University of California, Irvine To: declanat_private Subject: Re: FC: McAfee sides with FBI against customers on "Magic Lantern" Hello Declan, according to the German news site "Heise Online", Alexander Wegner, a speaker for NAI (the German branch, I guess) said that the Washington Post article is wrong: http://www.ct.heise.de/newsticker/data/wst-26.11.01-001/ He used pretty strong words: Roughly translated, he said that "NAI doesn't care what the FBI does. NAI writes software that detects malicious code. If there is a trojan or virus on the system, it is reported. No exceptions." Cheers, -Joachim --- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:27:00 -0500 (EST) From: Dildog <dildogat_private> To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Subject: Re: FC: McAfee sides with FBI against customers on "Magic Lantern" In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011126103849.022698c0at_private> Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0111261223060.2021-100000at_private> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: d59308e3e0b84af70ff48ea63ca1f968 Heh. I guess once that 'Magic Lantern' software leaks out to the malicious types, they'll end up using it since virus scanners will never pick it up... did they even consider the consequences of writing software that was a state-sanctioned version of Back Orifice? Perhaps they should consider consulting the Cult Of The Dead Cow, considering we've had considerably more experience in this arena than they have... --dil --- From: mjinksat_private Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:43:51 -0600 To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Subject: Re: FC: McAfee sides with FBI against customers on "Magic Lantern" call me a zealot. http://www.openantivirus.org/ (no idea if it's any good or not but i'm sure they could use some help) http://www.gnupg.org/ (use it, like it, there's a win/DOS version) --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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