Apakah itu: Stalkerware
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Apakah Stalkerware
Stalkerware adalah istilah yang biasa digunakan, menandakan apa-apa perisian yang digunakan untuk stalking, iaitu pengesanan orang yang tidak dibenarkan, yang sering terselindung juga.
Stalkerware, Spouseware, Creepware - apa perbezaan
Selalunya, istilah 'stalkerware' digunakan secara sinonim dengan kata-kata seperti 'Creepware' dan 'spouseware. Konsep-konsep ini sangat serupa, tetapi masih mempunyai beberapa perbezaan. , seperti namanya, adalah perisian yang digunakan untuk mengesan pasangan. Creepware adalah sejenis malware yang diam-diam dipasang pada komputer atau peranti digital lain tanpa pengetahuan penggunanya. memantau aktiviti pengguna dan mengawal peranti jauh dari sini Oleh itu, istilah stalkerware dan spouseware benar-benar sinonim (spigeware adalah kes khas stalkerware) dan menunjukkan terutamanya cara perisian digunakan, dan bukan ciri-ciri dan kaedah kerja. giliran, mencirikan kaedah pemasangan dan pengendalian perisian ini.
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 not 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.
