On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:12:37PM -0500, David Lesher wrote:
re: the keystroke sniffer:
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/12/04/front_page/JMOB04.htm
The FBI application is at: http://www.epic.org/crypto/breakin/application.pdf
The court order is at: http://www.epic.org/crypto/breakin/order.pdf
I poked around the EPIC site to see if I could find more about that case - didn't find anything, but I did run across a reference to a 9th Circuit opinion of some interest - it seems that some drug cops in Las Vegas were engaging in illegal wiretaps, by modifying pen register hardware so that it facilitated audiotaping without a warrant. One of the cops mentioned this to a colleague, who talked to a supervsor, who broke into one of the other cops' office, found equipment which appeared to be performing an illegal warrantless audio intercept - so he then installed some illegal warrantless video recording equipment, which recorded the first crooked cops' behavior. The video evidence was excluded by the 9th Circuit as having been recorded outside the boundaries of Title III and the Fourth Amendment. It's online at http://laws.findlaw.com/9th/2/923/665.html if you care to meditate a little on the old "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" question; or at 923 F.2d 665 for the old-fashioned. -- Greg Broiles gbroiles@netbox.com PO Box 897 Oakland CA 94604