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WizzleKakeon “Hand of Thief” Trojan Targets Linux

Anyone know what technique this package uses to grab information from forms?

LD_PRELOAD? ptrace?

I googled but only found ways of doing this that are Win32-specific.

WizzleKakeon Wikipedia founder brands PM's porn filters plan 'ridiculous'

From a technical standpoint, it's do-able. The extent to which it would be effective is certainly debatable.

My point is that it's a stupid idea that reflects a profound naïveté about the internet as a social phenomenon.

WizzleKakeon Wikipedia founder brands PM's porn filters plan 'ridiculous'

Of course it's ridiculous. Why does it take Jimmy Fucking Wales saying this for BBC to run a story saying that?

Either David Cameron is an abject moron or he (and his cronies) don't understand this whole internet thing. It's probably the latter. AFAIK, everyone who didn't grow up online doesn't seem to "get" it.

WizzleKakeon Expert Says NSA Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors

Have you read the code? What makes you think that they're above inserting subtle bugs?

WizzleKakeon A snapshot of your computer with dd, pv and gzip - Part 1

This is an incredibly naive way of backing up your system.

I use rsync to back up certain folders. I'm OK with re-installing Linux if my hard drive crashes.