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DIRT
DIRT stands for Data Interception by Remote Transmission, and was released in June by Codex Data Systems, Inc. DIRT was developed to assist law enforcement in pedophilia investigations, but future uses could include drug investigations, money laundering cases and information warfare, or maybe even to gather information about YOU! It can monitor and intercept data from any PC in the world, if that computer is on-line.
DIRT operates like a Trojan Horse. It is transmitted secretly to a target via email in several ways: either as a proprietary protocol, a self-extracting executable, dummy segment fault, hidden ZIP file, or by various other methods. All that someone with DIRT needs to know is your email address. Period. And you are clueless.

Once the DIRT-Bug is successfully embedded in the target machine, two things occur:


First, all keystrokes at the keyboard are secretly captured and when the target machine is connected on-line, it will stealthily transmit the captured contents to a remotely located DIRT-Control Central for analysis. This is how encryption keys can be discovered and later used to develop evidence in criminal cases.

Secondly, when the target is on-line, the PC will invisibly behave like an anonymous FTP server, giving the folks at DIRT-Control Center 100% access to all resources. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, which means they can upload or download files to or from your computer. Investigators can read your documents, view your images, download your files and intercept your encryption keys.
Defending against DIRT can be difficult. Even with firewalls, keyboard strokes (and associated private information) will be broadcast to DIRT-Central. Apparently DIRT defeated Pretty Good Privacy in a matter of minutes simply by stealing the user’s key as it was typed in.

So much for privacy!


Despite the fact that the use of DIRT violates the Computer Abuse Act of 1984, it is considered legal because it is a law enforcement tool that claims to only be sold to military, government and law enforcement agencies only. It's a matter of time that others will gain access to it or come up with similar products. And, we can't be sure who it will be used against.

If you want more information on this, and if you aren't afraid to go to their site, you can go to CODEX to get more information on DIRT.


Why are we concerned about this?
Reality Zone is not anti-government, nor do we have anything to hide. However, we are anti-CORRUPT-government. If you are politically "unpopular", the government has the power to ruin your life. And these days, that can happen within any government organization. Tools like this make it easy for the "government" to spy on anyone with whom they find disfavor. Therefore, we are very concerned about this and urge you to write your representatives opposing the use of this software under any circumstances that violate our rights to privacy.[/b]

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i'll say this again. If you need to do something where privacy is an issue. DON'T USE ANYTHING WIRLESS, A TELEPHONE, OR A PC!

mike

So it communciates via gamma rays to avoid detection by the firewall's rules? TCP/UDP/IP is TCP/UDP/IP and can be seen, touched, discovered, blocked with a bunch of tools. An application as large as an FTP server is going to be seen coming into a machine I run. It's also going to have to launch some how and can be detected once running.

There are dozens of trojan horses out there that can do all kinds of kewl things. I can turn on your web cam, your microphone, send audio to your speakers, print documents on your printer, reverse your mouse buttons, flip your monitor's screen once I get you to download a program for me, and that's easy enough to do with a large majority of people. My favorite is SubSeven though there are plenty of better/newer ones out there now.

TEMPEST - don't get me started.

If you've got something on your computer that "they" want bad enough even tinfoil hats aren't going to help. "They" will wait for you to leave your home and enter though a window, door, or even the wall or floor if "they" have to. Once "they" gain physical access to your machine you're done. Leave your machine alone for an hour once in your life and "they" can get it. "They" have millions of dollars, the best in the industry and all the latest and greatest toolz and trickz.

Never use a cell phone, telephone, radio, computer or even the paper mail to transmitt anything "they" might want, even encrypted. The best place for such conversations is face-to-face on the side of a mountain around a campfire late at night.