BBC 'vague' reporting again!

[Igor Mozolevsky]

2008/12/1 James Davis <james.davis@ja.net>:

> Richard Clayton wrote:
>
>> ... essentially what the bad guys use, but packaged into a product that
>> provides any Tom Dick or Harriet with leet skillz (along with all the
>> logging that a chain of evidence might require...)
>
> It sounds like an incredibly noisy product that'd cause all sorts of
> suspicion if an unsuccessful use was detected.
>
> I presume that to avoid this, the listening part provides some hints as
> to what attacks should be attempted?

Of course you are omitting the technical aspects of this - how much
'evidence' can you pull out of 25kiBps pipe (or whatever ADSL upstream
speed your suspect may be connected to)? Or do they not plan on
gathering the evidence remotely? Also, don't most ADSL modems/routers
connect home PCs on private IP address space nowadays? I seriously
can't see how this is 'technology' is going to work against mere
mortals...


Cheers,
Igor M., GCFA