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FTC slaps down commercial keylogger firm

CyberSpy Software, which markets the controversial RemoteSpy commercial keylogging application, has agreed to rewrite the software and clean up its business practices to settle a case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission. RemoteSpy was marketed as a “100 per cent undetectable” app that might be used to “Spy on Anyone. From …

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Boffin

looks like a duck

talks like a duck.

it must be a duck

Coat

Pirated version....

And if you want it for free, I have Qax....

Thumb Down

Who wants to bet...

... they get a significant run on orders in the next few weeks before the new FTC-compliant version comes out?

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WTF?

<-- See

Maybe it's just because I haven't had my coffee yet but that made no sense to me whatsoever.

WTF?

RE

What you talking 'bout Willis?

Anonymous Coward
WTF?

erm

Has amanfrommars got a new handle?

Gmail's "last account activity" is a cool, potentially useful thing but I dont see how it bears any relevance to this article.

Same with the bank lock down.

And I dont know what exploit you mean.

DId you post this on the wrong window?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Over

Coat

Be quick

Just brought it, anyone got Megan foxes or Miss Hilton's personnel e-mail address?

Brought it?

Where to?

FAIL

Brought?

Where did you bring it from?

Spell properly, you mean BOUGHT.

Its not personnel

It's HR these days

Grenade

@Chris Hatfield

thanks for that.... right, back to the story...

FAIL

@Scott

Maybe you should worry about learning to communicate successfully in English before attempting technical, unethical and likely illegal invasions of anyone's privacy?

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FAIL

Re: "proactively detects"

Is there a situation in which someone another than a marketing or sales drone, astroturfing or otherwise, would use the word 'proactive' in connection with a product?

Perhaps you should leverage your synergies towards a vocabulary used by real people to further your marketing campaign.

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

wow!

That product's AWESOME! Err....I mean reprehensible.

*searches torrent site*

One legitimate use

This acutally looks handy - to install on the PCs of those incompetent friends and elderly relatives so as to help in future when trying to work out what they have done to it this time....

or

just get them to install logmein.com (no I'm not associated with them in any way).

WTF?

what?

Settle a case? Tone it down? Why aren't people going to JAIL! Throw them all into JAIL.

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