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    Default FBI's Secret Spyware Tracks Down Teen Who Made Bomb Threats

    A high schooler who made various bomb threats to his school was tracked down by the FBI. They tracked him down by sending a link to him through his MySpace page which contained Spyware. This Spyware logged in his computer's IP address, MAC address, open ports, a list of running programs, the operating system type, version and serial number, preferred Internet browser and version, the computer's registered owner and registered company name, the current logged-in user name, the last-visited URL and the IP Address of every computer it connects to.

    http://www.switched.com/2007/07/19/t...-watching-you/

    A little scary, huh?
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    Damn...Isn't that illegal? Or does the FBI have special rights?

    Nonetheless, he's a dumbass for making a myspace page about bomb threats...

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    So note: Simply using the Internet disqualifies you from normal expectations of privacy and safety of your data.
    I hope there's some activist group out there that will get it to be enforced to have a warrant to access information like the FBI did. I no longer feel secure on here XD.
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    I think FBI is sort of "above the law".. Not really scary, unless you're making bomb threats too..

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    The FBI was able to install this program without a suspect or wiretap warrant because "under a ruling this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ... Internet users have no 'reasonable expectation of privacy' in the data when using the Internet."

    So note: Simply using the Internet disqualifies you from normal expectations of privacy and safety of your data.
    Oh crap you beat me to the quote. Anyway yeah that is scary.

    However I do have to say a few things for the guy's stupidity. Everyone knows that social networking sites such as myspace are simply methods that "THE MAN" has created to extract all the information that they want from you without them going to any trouble at all. The fools that use myspace will willingly divulge so very much information about themselves without realizing that they are just handing their ass over to "THE MAN". Really anybody that is a tad bit security minded would win out over the FBI's spyware. For example my previous installation of Windows XP was supposedly owned by Batman, wasn't registered, had a false activation, a large variety of security software on it, and on top of all that common sense coupled with some healthy paranoia go a long way when you remember not to download stupid shit.

    Edit: I apparently forgot to mention that I use the Peerguardian government list which even if I had somehow contracted said FBI spyware would hopefully prevent it from phoning home if it was a known government IP.

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    It's a type of software commonly called RAT (Remote Administration); basically, it's an advanced keylogger.

    A little knowledge of assembly is all you need to make a RAT. (experience helps, though)
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    There was a bomb threat at on of our district's schools on the anniversary of Columbine also. They caught him, but not by using spyware. Spyware FTW!

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    Spyware gets everyone.


    Though why the hell would that kid click a link that he just got from someone, I mean, the FBI must have just added him on the day that he accepted them as a friend.

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