IBM Uses Keystroke-monitoring in NJ Mob Case (was Re:

[Somebody]

BNA'sInternet
 Law News (ILN) - 12/5/00)

An instructive case.  Apparently they used the keystroke monitoring
to obtain the pgp passphrase, which was then used to decrypt the files.

The legal fight over whether the monitor was legal and whether the
information so obtained are in fact records of criminal activity is a
side-show.  It remains practical evidence of how insecure computer
equipment / OS's and pass-phrase based identity authentication combine to
reduce the effective security of a system.

"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:

> At 8:30 AM -0500 on 12/5/00, BNA Highlights wrote:
>
> > KEYSTROKE MONITORING AND THE SOPRANOS
> > A federal gambling case against the son of a New Jersey mob
> > boss may provide the courts with the opportunity to weigh in
> > on the privacy issues surrounding keystroke monitoring.  The
> > FBI's surveillance included the use of such technology to
> > reproduce every stroke entered on a computer.  The defense
> > plans to challenge the FBI's surveillance methods at
> > pre-trial defense motion.
> > http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2000/12/04/front_page/JMOB04.htm
>
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