Thursday, July 19th, 2007 (
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This is actually pretty clever. This kid was making bomb threats to his school and was doing a pretty good job at hiding his tracks until
the FBI got involved.
By sending a small program to his Myspace page, they somehow managed to infect his home PC with a monitoring program that collected evidence of his crime:

...if the Bureau could get the CIPAV installed on the user's machine, it would be able to collect the machine's IP address, MAC address, list of running programs, operating system, Internet browser used, language used, the registered computer name, the currently logged-in username, and more. All of this information would be relayed over the Internet back to an FBI computer in Virginia.

That sounds just like
Windows Vista.
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