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Source: Thorsten Thielen (thth@gmx.net)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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GOTCHA! OS/2 program arrested for serial capture!

Terrifying news have reached us from our correspondent B.G. in R.:
Gotcha!, the infamous and dangerous OS/2 screencapture utility is free
again!

The program was detected and immediatly arrested during a routine
e-mail contents check on the borders of the MSN, but despite the
systems strict and state-of-the-art security standards managed to
escape shortly afterwards.

Those of our readers, who are not so well informed about the history of
the case, may want to know, that the program known under the name
"Gotcha!" was designed soleley for the task of capturing innocent
pixels from a computer's screen and lock them away in so called "bitmap
files".

The following information about the lately developed advanced criminal
capabilities of the program were provided to us by a large computer
company, residing in Redmond, Oregon, that wants to stay annonymous:

"Despite the ongoing efforts of security and computer experts to
protect the public from this serious threat, the program [Gotcha!] has
appeared already several times on the Internet, having increased its
criminal features and malvolent abilities with every appearance. The
latest of this incarnations which refers to itself by the term "Gotcha!
1.45" sets new standards in the history of criminal graphical
operations:

- The length of the "delayed capture" delay, which was previously a
fixed and predictable value, may now be altered in almost any way the
ill-meaning user desires. To further raise the shamefullness of this
device, every passing second may be accompanied by a terrifying beep
from the computer's speaker.

- The user now no longer needs to think of a filename to imprison the
pixels on disk, but may have Gotcha! lock up its victims in
automatically numbered files or even may demand that all captured
pixels are to be stored in the same file, thus erasing the previous
inhabitants of this file forever!

- The format of the prison-files now may be chosen from three available
types of bitmap file format, thus greatly increasing the usability of
the loot in criminal circles. The code for saving (note this macabre
and ironic choice of words!) the image to disk has totally been
re-written, to avoid several bugs that might have had a chance
tp stop the criminal act at the last moment.

- All bitmap-files written by Gotcha! now are forced to undergo a
procedure called "setting the file type extended attribute" which is of
course only a way to strip the last rest of the pixels' individuality
by assigning them the fixed and predefined label "bitmap".

- Another one of the evil features of this program, designed for those
who prefer the cowardly "hit and run" tactics, allows the user (by the
means of secret, sold underhand commandline switches) to order Gotcha!
to quickly capture the whole screen, hide it away in a disk file and
immediatly exit afterwards, leaving no trace of its criminal
activities. The option to turn off the sound, that tells that the
capture is done, makes this all not only pass unseen, but unheard too.

- As the main window of the program is fairly big and easy to spot on
the desktop, Gotcha! now provides the means to take captures even when
the main window remains hidden, in the form of the so called "snapshot
window", which can be set to almost any size and only requires one
click with the mouse to initiate the evil process.

- But the most terrifying and detestable feature of Gotcha! is the so
called "Serial capture": Previous versions of the program always
required repeated user interaction to capture more than one image - but
with the help of this new feature, Gotcha! can do this all by itself!
All that has to be supplied is the number of seconds, the program shall
wait between captures and the program then will take a capture
everytime this delay has passed, until someone has the courage to
stop it."

Recent reports inform us, that several people claim to have spotted the
fugitive program at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming heading for
http://hobbes.nmsu.ed/pub/os2/apps/graphics/scrncapt

More information on this truly shocking case may be found at
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/CIP/thielen/gotcha/

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