[pp.int.general] LOPPSI to be discussed in february

[Edison Carter]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Tero Inha <insu at linux-noob.com> wrote:
> I do not want to alarm or scare peoples but there's already existing
> technology to actually send information about your keystrokes, screenshots
> end even more. These kind of malwares are called keyloggers and mostly used
> by crackers to sort users passwords. I think you can even buy these kinds of
> software legally and install to smartphones to spy that specific phone.
> Record voice calls, forward messages etc..
> I have heard rumors about keyloggers will be planted in to computers as like
> a normal Windows update. And this is very bad idea. If there is something
> like that pre-installed in your system and you don't know anything about it,
> how we can sure about what kinds of peoples are using it ?
> - Insu


This is all rather timely since the Chinese government are in the news
for basically the same kind of thing against Human Rights Activists.

This is a very good time to consider switching to Free and Open Source
software (eg Linux)  if you're not running it already..