ما هو: Stalkerware
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스토커웨어 란?
스토커웨어는 일반적으로 사용되는 용어로 스토킹 에 사용되는 모든 소프트웨어, 즉 사람들의 무단 추적을 나타냅니다.
스토커웨어, 스 푸즈웨어, 크립웨어-차이점
'스토커웨어'라는 용어는 'creepware'및'spouseware'와 같은 단어와 동의어로 사용되는 경우가 많습니다. 이러한 개념은 실제로 비슷하지만 약간의 차이가 있습니다. 스 푸즈웨어는 이름에서 알 수 있듯이 배우자를 추적하는 데 사용되는 소프트웨어입니다. Creepware는 사용자 모르게 컴퓨터 나 다른 디지털 장치에 비밀리에 설치되는 맬웨어 유형입니다. 사용자 활동을 모니터링하고 장치를 원격으로 제어 할 수 있습니다. 따라서 스토커웨어 및 스파이웨어라는 용어는 실제로 동의어이며 (스파이웨어는 스토커웨어의 특수 사례 임) 소프트웨어의 특성 및 작동 방식이 아니라 소프트웨어 사용 방식을 주로 나타냅니다. Creepware는이 소프트웨어의 설치 및 작동 방법을 특징으로합니다.
Stalkerware and monitoring software
There are 3 main scenarios for using monitoring software:
- Installing monitoring software on your own devices in order to monitor them; other people who use these devices are informed about such monitoring;
- Installing monitoring software on your own devices in order to monitor them; other people who use these devices are informed about such monitoring;
- Installing monitoring software on other people's devices in order to monitor them, without knowledge of the devices’ owners.
When it comes to stalkerware, the last option is most often implied — when the stalker, even after gaining short-term physical access to the victim’s device, covertly installs spyware on it, thereby gaining access to information about all future activity on the monitored device, without the victim's knowledge. In most countries (jurisdictions) such use of software is illegal. The term 'stalkerware' itself appeared precisely because of the cases when legal monitoring software was used to track intimate partners and spouses without their knowledge.
Use of the term
The problem with using the term 'stalkerware' is that many experts and journalists, when using it, don’t mean software that was used for illegal / unethical purposes – they mean any software that could even potentially be used in this way. Sometimes any monitoring software is called stalkerware.
For example, the Coalition Against Stalkerware, an association of cybersecurity companies, offers the following definition of the term 'stalkerware': "It is software, made available directly to individuals, that enables a remote user to monitor the activities on another user's device without that user's consent and without explicit, persistent notification to that user in order to intentionally or unintentionally facilitate intimate partner surveillance, harassment, abuse, stalking, and/or violence." So, any monitoring software that can work covertly falls under this definition, no matter what purpose it is used for.
