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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.

3 of 249 comments (clear)

  1. Bypassing the keylogger by loosenut · · Score: 4, Funny

    The key to fooling the keylogger is to use a blank password, of course.

    FBI recruiters who are reading this: you know where you can contact me about that job offer.

  2. scarfo keylogger by trb · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I read this headline, I thought, Scarfo is a pretty sensible name for a keystroke logger.

  3. Re:Ctrl-V ? by The+Dodger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but think about it.

    Do you really want to leave your PGP passphrase lying around in a text file on your computer? :)

    D.

    ...is for DOH!