Homeland Insecurity 10022

Kind of getting off track here a little bit. The original Carnivore thing didn't really work so well, and all that's known about "Enhanced" Carnivore" is that one component of it was some sort of keylogger program and one plan was to try to implant it via a virus. I imagine, though, that a few people here know of other more recent alternative methods to plant a keylogger. One thing about this redacted doc I found interesting, is the part that goes: "will be included as part of Windows 2000-redacted"

Now what do you suppose was that redacted part? It's obviously a reference to a Windows version, but references to Windows 2000 and 98 are not redacted. So that leaves only NT and some other version with a 2-letter name. And "will be included" implies a later version. Hmmm.....not to feed any paranoia, what could that possibly mean....?

Carnivore, enhanced or otherwise, the Patriot Act, and such don't seem to have produced a lot of results in any case, and in context of the loss of privacy and the potential for petty abuse, there is no good point to them whatsoever.

And then getting back to the original bit about Homeland Security planning on going all-Microsoft despite Microsoft's wretched security history.... Even though you can install a layers of good non- Microsoft products for protection, and put up strict guidelines and barriers regarding PDA's notebooks, and flash cards, it'll be akin to running a very large prison for escape artists, all of whom have lots of friends on the outside -- you'll need constant vigilance and it will only take the most minor of slip-ups and....

Also I'm not really digging how the main Microsoft point guy for the project use to work for one of the Homeland Security heads. I think there is a term for this that's been apparently banished from official use since Bush became President.

But I'm just a trolling cross-poster, so what do I know?

-BC