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Today is Boomtime, day 35 in the season of The Aftermath, 3167.

Apparently thanks to the karaoke segment of the "Shrek" video, my almost-5-year-old nephew's new favorite song to sing at the top of his lungs goes something like this: I like big butts and I cannot lie

Oy.

yet another reason to never open fscking attachments

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3371-2001Nov22.html

Magic Lantern would largely resolve an important problem with the FBI's existing monitoring technology, the "key logger system", which in the past has required investigators to sneak into a target's home or business with a "sneak-and-peak warrant" and secretly attach the device to a computer.

In contrast, Magic Lantern could be installed over the Internet by tricking a person into opening an e-mail attachment or by exploiting some of the same weakness in popular commercial software that allow hackers to break into computers. It is unclear whether Magic Lantern would transmit keystrokes it records back to the FBI over the Internet or store the information to be seized later in a raid. The existence of Magic Lantern was first disclosed by MSNBC.