Keyloggers Now Classified Technology

Posted by michael on Saturday August 25, 2001 @05:24AM from the trust-us-we're-the-government dept.

general_re writes: "The New York Times (free reg required blah blah blah) is reporting that the Department of Justice is still refusing to turn over details of how the keystroke loggers used against Nicky Scarfo worked, claiming that revealing how it works "would render it useless in future investigations" as well as claiming that it is classified information. Nevermind that this also prevents his lawyers from evaluating or attacking the credibility or accuracy of the evidence arrayed against him. One interesting question raised is whether it's always been classified, or if they're retroactively classifying it in order to avoid revealing how they work."

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Re:welcome by CoderDevo · 2001-08-25 05:37 · Score: 2, Redundant

First come the Scientists to create the technology.
Then come the Entrepreneurs to think of new products.
Then come the Investors to pay to build the products.
Then come the Marketeers to feed us the products.
Then come the Lawyers to protect the Investors.
Then come the Politicians to protect the Lawyers.
Finally comes the Laws to protect us from the technology.

Crazy.