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| Subject: How anti-virus software can be turned into the ultimate tool for spying Tue Jan 02, 2018 4:34 pm | |
| It has been a secret, long known to intelligence agencies but rarely to consumers, that security software can be a powerful spy tool.
Security software runs closest to the bare metal of a computer, with privileged access to nearly every program, application, web browser, email and file. There is good reason for this: Security products are intended to evaluate everything that touches your machine in search of anything malicious, or even vaguely suspicious.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/innovation/how-anti-virus-software-can-be-turned-into-the-ultimate-tool-for-spying-20180101-p4yy6i.html |
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