Re: [A-List] Russia: Chechen hacker alert

[Stephen Holden <sholden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Michael Keaney wrote:

> Is it the article that is false or its source? I would opt for the latter,
> since "Ian Bruce" is merely a conduit, a urinal for intelligence services
> from the CIA to MI6 to, apparently, the FSB, which must be counted as having
> a strong interest in playing up the Chechen threat to all life as we know
> it, including, most importantly of course, the financial system.


I can't speak for the source, but anyone claiming that a two-year old,
widely known and widely detectable program (meaning that all antivirus
software cleans it) is the tool used by "experts" to  break into banks, is
stunningly ignorant.  I was at the release for the first version of BO in
1998 and have used & defended against the program, it's something used by
people who have a lack of programming knowledge.

If this is put out by the FSB or similar, they must be counting on their
audience not knowing much at all about the subject.

-steve