On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Lisa Kachold wrote:

> It can be used for malicious reasons.

so can almost any tool

As you later note:

> It is not cheap.  Free applications and online tools exist 
> to do the samething.

drop in a VNC server, pre-key it, and hide it from the 
process table listing, and one is home in a Windows environment; munge 
a kernel module, and one can attain the same effect in Linux. 
Apple has similar in OS/X ...

back to the lead post ...

> It is currently being used by NSA and government 
> surveillance of citizens of interest, or it can be used for 
> technical support purposes.

A strong assertion.  A search turns up just another vendor, in 
the marketing hunt trying to sell to the Homeland Security 
'garrison state'
 	http://www.kaseya.com/
with a FIPS-140-2 certification.  They are co-marketing with 
Microsoft
 	http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/software-solutions.aspx
and they seem to advert having sold to the U S Air Force

Conspicuously absent from a google search is non 'tinfoil hat' 
evidence beyond supposition and capabilities, and actually 
showing improper use by a federal agency

Please, prove me wrong with URLs I missed

-- Russ herrold
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