I admit that I only read the first five articles and skimmed the next five, but *none* of the articles I looked at claimed the FBI even admitted they had such a virus in hand and they didn't even come close to saying the FBI ordered any of the anti-virus vendors to not detect their keystroke logging trojan. The more recent articles all seem to state that all of the AV vendors repudiated early reports that they might choose to not detect a "Magic Lantern" virus. It would be suicide for them to make such a decision, since once the "signature" they used to detect and ignore the virus was known, other even less scrupulous virus writers could possibly use it to cloak *their* viruses.
While I don't believe the government always (or even often) has my best interests in mind, I do know that our collective interests usually coincide for the most part. Of course, the devil is always in the details.
I hope you have your tinfoil hat firmly mounted and calibrated.
Thanks for the links though. It's fun to see a poorly conceived government fantasy get crucified in the press.
JMH
Gary E. Miller wrote:
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Yo John!
Google is your friend:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=virus+magic+lantern+anti-virus&btnG=Search
Check the first link:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/27/av_vendors_split_over_fbi/
RGDS
GARY
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