Controversial spying and bugging software, Dirt, exposed by vnunet.com last summer, was revealed to be a bit more than vapourware when it turned up on a Dutch website last week. Dirt first hit the headlines last May, when it emerged that . . .
Controversial spying and bugging software, Dirt, exposed by vnunet.com last summer, was revealed to be a bit more than vapourware when it turned up on a Dutch website last week. Dirt first hit the headlines last May, when it emerged that Codex Data Systems was marketing a password-stealing Trojan, similar to the infamous Back Orifice or the FBI's mysterious Magic Lantern, to law enforcement authorities.

The company, headed up by Frank Jones, a convicted felon and known fraudster currently on probation for illegal possession of surveillance devices, denied that the product was vapourware but could not offer vnunet.com any proof.

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