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FBI Files Brief on Scarfo Keylogger

Posted by michael on from the only-as-secure-as-the-weakest-link dept.

Firewort writes: "In an affidavit (warning, it's a PDF) filed with a federal court in New Jersey, the FBI has disclosed some of the details of a controversial "key logger system" used to obtain the encryption password of a criminal suspect. They go into great detail describing PGP and the different methods they might have used to keystroke-log Scarfo to get his encryption key." Interesting, and more technically sophisticated than the basic keyloggers which grab keystrokes indiscriminately.

2 of 249 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Ok, where is it? by haizi_23 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    hey -- good idea! they should totally make that open source.

  2. Re:Ok, where is it? by billnapier · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How can we let the FBI use a closed-source Keylogger? If it were open source, we could verify that they aren't "wire-tapping" communications with it. I think there should be at least an independent review of the code...