Magic Lantern is Wakeup Call
Thursday, December 20th, 2001Magic Lantern is Wakeup Call. FBI has reluctantly admitted it is developing “Magic Lantern” as part of a series of enhancements to the Cyber Knight project. The software is capable of gaining access to your encryption keys by stealing passwords used to secure them. It is a trojan horse that once inserted into an internet connected computer logs your keystrokes and relays your data to FBI. FBI hopes that users who are smart enough to use encryption for their communication will fall a pray to Magic Lantern by overlooking their personal system’s security. So how is it a wakeup call you ask? Just a minute. [kuro5hin.org]
