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2004-11-07 Terror Networks & Islam

Military powers 'using Internet to spy and plot digital attacks'

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Posted by Fred 2004-11-07 11:56:35 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pretty obvious. With what other technology can you plant a bug remotely?

Posted by V is for Victory 2004-11-07 7:21:23 AM|| 2004-11-07 7:21:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Speaking of Richard Clarke - isn't his 15 minutes up? What about Sandy Berger? Anything new on his pants-gate?

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-07 7:37:36 AM|| 2004-11-07 7:37:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Pretty obvious. With what other technology can you plant a bug remotely?

Windows XP. ;o)

Seriously, a number of technologies are available for internet spying on individuals and for sites. Keystroke loggers is a good one, but packet sniffers are good as well. Also any number of worms exploiting vulnerabilities.

For atacks: Brute force attacks; spoofed data for http servers, injected SQL. A whole cavalcade of technologies that are net aware and ready to bring down the jihadi site nearest you.

Posted by badanov 2004-11-07 7:42:47 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2004-11-07 7:42:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Badanov: Like I said...with what other technology than internet-based technology can you plant a bug remotely?

Posted by V is for Victory 2004-11-07 8:02:09 AM|| 2004-11-07 8:02:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 V4V: Beats me. :o)

Posted by badanov 2004-11-07 8:19:38 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2004-11-07 8:19:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 On the other hand, if you want to expand the concept of a bug to include all forms of remote eavesdropping, there are the various SIGINT platforms, and the wide variety of RF intercept systems. There is cell phone eavesdropping, which I guess fits the description if you can turn on the cell phone remotely. There are also optical eavesdropping and collection systems, which most computer users are not aware of.

Posted by V is for Victory 2004-11-07 8:30:31 AM|| 2004-11-07 8:30:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Of course, in special cases, there's always the US mail, or that strange Christmas gift from the foreign aunt you didn't know you had...

Posted by V is for Victory 2004-11-07 8:39:31 AM|| 2004-11-07 8:39:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 with miniaturization and nanotechnology advances, that fly that just came in the window could be a bug in more than one sense of the word ;-)

just because you're paranoid doesn't mean somebody's not watching....

Posted by Frank G 2004-11-07 8:39:59 AM|| 2004-11-07 8:39:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "Net Force"(from Tom Clancy you heathens)

Posted by raptor 2004-11-07 1:23:19 PM|| 2004-11-07 1:23:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Wow. The other day Diddler Ritter checks in, then today Blixie, and now Richard Clarke. Who's watching the Irrelevant Hall of Fame, Joe Wilson?

Posted by tu3031 2004-11-07 3:26:47 PM|| 2004-11-07 3:26:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 tu3031---The MSM is running out of election stories, so they are sifting through the sludge pits, and who pops up? Ritter and Co. Even the MSM and dems are starting to realize that you can only whip a dead horse so much before it becomes just a mass of unrecognizable goo.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-11-07 4:46:17 PM|| 2004-11-07 4:46:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#12

"...using the Internet to spy on their enemies..."
AARGGGH!! The RUSSIANS Have Been Reading RANTBURG Again! Who knew!!! (Runs in circles, digs hole, buries self.)

Posted by Old Grouch 2004-11-07 6:58:24 PM|| 2004-11-07 6:58:24 PM|| Front Page Top

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