Greetings everyone. I've decided to post another follow up to the magic lantern. This article is from Http://www.hideaway.net
A reliable source of information. The story is as follows:

30/11/2001 Controversy Builds Over Magic Lantern -

Last week we reported on the FBI's new surveillance tool "Magic Lantern" - a trojan horse that logs a suspect's keystrokes and sends them to law enforcement authorities. Controversy has
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emerged over how Anti-Virus software will respond to the software. It doesn't do the FBI much good if the suspect's virus scanner blocks Magic Lantern. McAfee and Symantec have both reportedly
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,48648,00.html made arrangements to keep their virus scanners from detecting it, while Sophos and other vendors have taken the stance that malware is malware and exceptions cannot be made. What's frightening is that hackers could obtain (or simulate) copies of Magic Lantern and modify them for their own use - if the most popular virus scanners don't detect them, this could be disastrous.


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