From: Christian Leber (christianleber.de)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 13:40:00 CST

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:44:39PM -0500, Matt Marooney wrote:
> I am trying to write a program to help people who are addicted to internet
> pornography.

That is very nice of you.

> This application would be tied into an online service where
> someone could sign up for monitoring, and download a thin client app. The
> application would run in the background of the person's computer, and
> upload the person's internet activity to the website. The service would
> then email this activity report to designated recipients. I have most of
> the knowledge to create this service, but I need to know how to do a
> couple things:

I see millions of poor addicts that would love to get logs sent to some
service. This service WILL have a GREAT future!!

> 1. I would like the program to be "un-installable". I've heard of a
> couple of hardware security tracking services that can load a very small
> setup package in the CMOS and if a computer is stolen, and the hard drive
> is replaced, the app reloads itself and the next time the computer is on
> the internet, it sends out a beacon. Does anyone have any insight about
> how to do something like this? I want the CMOS program to run on boot,
> and check to see if the monitoring software is still installed. If it is
> not, the boot process reloads it.

That's easy, will easily run on millions of different hardware
combinations. NOT
 
> 2. obviously, the program does not need to be very large, so I want it to
> run in the background and not be visible to the computer's user. This is
> easy, I know, but I want the process to be completely invisible. (even to
> super-geeks)

You are lying.

There is no reason why someone would sign up for a service that installs
some application that is invisible and not removable and sents data to
some "service".

> 3. I would like to figure out a way to monitor traffic for multiple
> protocols (HTTP, FTP, File Sharing, Chat, etc.) . I'm wondering if there
> is a way to figure out "bad" requests on a packet level.

In the end you are either a insufficient troll[1] or someone who has no idea of nothing.
Oh, or you are working for the Bush administration.

Regards
Christian Leber

[1] If that is true, I'm sorry that i gave food to it.

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