House committee press release: http://www.house.gov/science/press/107pr/107-103.htm --- http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47676,00.html Governor Calls for 'Cyber Court' By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 2:00 a.m. Oct. 18, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- Malicious hackers, look out. A government anti-terrorism commission will recommend that Congress create a shadowy court to oversee investigations of suspected computer intruders. Gov. James Gilmore (R-Virginia), the commission's chairman, said Wednesday that federal judges have been far too sluggish in approving search warrants and eavesdropping of online miscreants. Instead, Gilmore told the House Science committee, the commission will recommend that a "cyber court" be created with extraordinary powers to authorize electronic surveillance and secret searches of suspected hackers' homes and offices. Police investigations are currently hamstrung by a lack of "effective procedures and understanding by many in the judiciary concerning the nature and urgency of cyber security," Gilmore said. [...] Gilmore offered few details on the proposal to create a hacker-court. A House press release says only that the commission will recommend the "establishment of a special 'Cyber Court' patterned after the court established in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----