Hi, > Why do we assume that government spies will go to such lengths to get > at an individual's data, when a downloaded root-kit on the target PC > suffices?
Because some governments like spying on Gmail accounts. I would agree with you if your goal is to snoop on a dissident, there are easier procedures there. But if you want to detect dissent in your population, Gmail, Facebook and Twitter is what you want to check. Ralph -- Dipl.-Inform. Ralph Holz I8: Network Architectures and Services Technische Universität München http://www.net.in.tum.de/de/mitarbeiter/holz/
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