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

petro petro at bounty.org
Thu Dec 7 18:52:17 PST 2000


>At 05:31 PM 12/5/00 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>>
>>An instructive case.  Apparently they used the keystroke monitoring
>>to obtain the pgp passphrase, which was then used to decrypt the files.
>
>A PDA would have been harder to hack, one imagines.
>
>Are there padlockable metal cases for PDAs?
>
>As I've written, the FBI should run quality house cleaning services
>in large cities.

	How do you know they don't?
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