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Re: IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy]
ummm ... not to sound skeptical, but were did -this- thing come from?
looks like a crock to me. here, guys: have at it, here's my email address.
ps: can you spell "agent provocateur" ---- (I'm not sure *I* can...)
At 11:43 AM 9/12/98 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
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>Delivered-To: [email protected]
>X-ROUTED: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:35:58 -0500
>X-TCP-IDENTITY: Bucsplace
>Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 10:30:29 -0400
>From: oldbat <[email protected]>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: IP <[email protected]>
>Subject: IP: [Fwd: new threat to privacy]
>Sender: [email protected]
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>Reply-To: oldbat <[email protected]>
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>From: "Bill Prince" <[email protected]>
>Newsgroups: misc.survivalism
>Subject: new threat to privacy
>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:14:54 -0400
>Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
>Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kbbqr.dialup.mindspring.com
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>There is another powerful tool for surreptitiously intercepting
>data, but it is only available to law enforcement and the
>military. Called DIRT (Data Interception and Remote
>Transmission), it was released in June by Codex Data Systems.
>http://www.thecodex.com/dirt.html
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>Investigators need only know your e-mail address to secretly
>install the program. Once they do, investigators can read your
>documents, view your images, download your files and intercept
>your encryption keys. DIRT was developed to assist law
>enforcement in pedophilia investigations, but future uses could
>include drug investigations, money laundering cases and
>information warfare.
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>- -
>Bill Prince | Orlando, Florida |
>Linuxori te salutamus!
>Take out the SPAM to email me!
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>Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [email protected]>
>Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
>44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
>"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
>[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
>experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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