🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:54:11 -0000, anthonyberet 
   <Reply@newsgrouponly.net> wrote:

>Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.org> wrote in message
>news:slrna20ijg.tjm.chris@ccserver.keris.net...
>>
>> All the ones I see there are (a) for Windoze or Mac and (b) voluntarily
>> installed (and you have to pay for most of them).  Since I (a) don't use
>> Windoze or Mac for anything sensitive (the only path my Windoze machines
>> -- which I have for doing music editing -- have to the net is via my
>> server/firewall running Squid as a proxy) and (b) would not voluntarily
>> install anything of that nature (much less pay for it) there are no
>> 'key grabbers' which will affect me.
>
>Remember that any software installed in you machine can mess with a personal
>firewall's code to prevent being blocked. -though proxys should be safe.

The proxy runs as a different user, so nothing else running is going to
interfere with it (unless I was stupid enough to have an untrusted
process running as root!).  This is Linux, not Windoze.  Plus I have a
hardware router/firewall and nothing messes with that.

>You are right about remote installation of keyloggers though....I would
>expect hackers to get to it before the old farts at the govt.
>I wouldn't be completely confident though, who knows what deals the US (at
>least) govt has with software developers...

They don't have any deals with the developers of the software I use,
other developers in different countries would soon notice (and in the
extreme I can look at the source myself).  Except, possibly, the music
software but I would quickly notice if that started trying to do net
accesses outside my home network...

Chris C