[WEB4LIB] RE: Magic Lantern

[Raymond Wood]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: danforth at alumni.tufts.edu [mailto:danforth at alumni.tufts.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:57 PM
> > To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Magic Lantern
> > 
> > I was just reading about Magic Lantern software and FBI's use of such items.
> > 
> > http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2001/1203bradner.html
> > 
> > I am wondering where this all fits into patron confidentiality and public
> > computers.
> > 
> > Isabel

> Andrea.Cheney at USPTO.GOV wrote:
> > Well,
> > 
> > WHat I understood the article to mean is that the U.S. Govt, FBI etc will
> > not need the cooperation staff in public libraries to find out what its
> > users are doing when they use Library pc's to access the Internet.

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:53:57AM -0800, Tom Edelblute remarked:
> Actually what I am envisioning is a hacker 
                                      ^^^^^^
'cracker' (like a safe cracker)

> using this to get hold of
> information from FBI computers.  If the FBI is not going to allow
> security holes to be fixed then aren't they leaving themselves
> vulnerable?

AFAIK Magic Lantern is not in the public domain, not do the FBI
have plans to make it so  :)

If I'm wrong about this I'd sure like to know...

Raymond