[Politech] DEA key logger used to eavesdrop in real time on alleged drug manufacturers [priv]
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Tue Jul 10 23:27:00 PDT 2007
I've posted excerpts from the DEA PDFs at the link below and could post
the PDFs themselves if there's sufficient interest. Previous Politech
message, from way back in December 2000:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01545.html
-Declan
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9741357-7.html
Feds use key logger to thwart PGP, Hushmail
July 10, 2007 4:45 AM PDT
A recent court case provides a rare glimpse into how some federal agents
deal with encryption: by breaking into a suspect's home or office,
implanting keystroke-logging software, and spying on what happens from afar.
An agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration persuaded a federal
judge to authorize him to sneak into an Escondido, Calif., office
believed to be a front for manufacturing the drug MDMA, or Ecstasy. The
DEA received permission to copy the hard drives' contents and inject a
keystroke logger into the computers.
That was necessary, according to DEA Agent Greg Coffey, because the
suspects were using PGP and the encrypted Web e-mail service
Hushmail.com. Coffey asserted that the DEA needed "real-time and
meaningful access" to "monitor the keystrokes" for PGP and Hushmail
passphrases.
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