{"id":272,"date":"2001-11-28T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2001-11-28T20:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=272"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:37:36","slug":"privacy-shmivacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/11\/28\/privacy-shmivacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy, shmivacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16688,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/conflict\\\/0,2100,48648,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/conflict\\\/0,2100,48648,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16689,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theregister.co.uk\\\/content\\\/55\\\/23057.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theregister.com\\\/content\\\/55\\\/23057.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Wheee&#8230;more fun news from our dear friends in the FBI: &#8220;Magic Lantern&#8221;, a government developed &#8216;trojan horse&#8217; style virus that appears as an e-mail attachment. Once on your machine, it can record keystrokes (in other words, anything typed on the keyboard &#8212; letters, e-mail, passwords, credit card numbers, etc.) and transmit them back to the FBI for analasys. As if that wasn&#8217;t bad enough, antivirus software makers are considering intentionally not scanning for this particular virus &#8212; in essence, selling crippled versions of their software. More info can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/conflict\/0,2100,48648,00.html\" title=\"Wired News: 'Lantern' Backdoor Flap Rages\">Wired<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/content\/55\/23057.html\" title=\"The Register: AV vendors split over FBI Trojan snoops\">The Register<\/a>. Just thought this deserved some mention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Magic Lantern,&#8217; a government developed &#8216;trojan horse&#8217; style virus that appears as an e-mail attachment. Once on your machine, it can record keystrokes and transmit them back to the FBI for analasys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}