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Comment Asrock ION 330 + PLC (Score 1) 516

by paketier on Friday September 03, 2010 @05:58AM (#33462674) Attached to: Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network?

I've got an asrock ion 330 with XBMC live (ubuntu based distro) in it, connected through PLC to my server. It has no problem playing HD content shared with SMB. You only hear it if you shutdown everything else during the night.

What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware 207

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:42PM from the i-always-feel-like-somebody's-watching-me dept.

StonyandCher writes "What is CIPAV? CIPAV stands for 'Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier'; a lengthy term for powerful spyware the Federal Bureau of Investigation can bring to bear on web-based crime. It was used last month in a case where someone was emailing bomb threats regularly to a Washington high school. An affidavit by an FBI agent revealed some of the workings of CIPAV. 'According to the court filing, this is [some of] what the CIPAV collects from the infected computer: IP address, Media Access Control address for the network card, List of open TCP and UDP ports, List of running programs ... Last visited URL. Once that initial inventory is conducted, the CIPAV slips into the background and silently monitors all outbound communication, logging every IP address to which the computer connects, and time and date stamping each.' In a Computerworld article, the author attempts to dissect CIPAV's purpose and raises a number of questions such as: What happens to the data the CIPAV collects? Does the CIPAV capture keystrokes? Can the CIPAV spread on its own to other computers, either purposefully or by accident? Does it erase itself after its job is done?"

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