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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.

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  1. For a second there... by BiggestPOS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought it read Scarface keylogger. I was confused to say the least. Is this STILL a big deal? You would think in the wake of the Terrorist Activities they would be giving the bureau a lot more leeway in surveillance...

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  2. Ok, where is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You know what I mean, the obligatory dumbass post about how they should make it open source.

  3. Emperor Norton prays for peace, gets it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    One night a gang of vigilantes gathered for a pogrom against San Francisco's Chinatown. All that stood in their way was the solitary figure of Norton. A sane man would not have been there in the first place. A rational man would have tried to reason with them. A moralist would have scolded them. A man as daft as Norton usually seemed would have loudly ordered them to cease and desist in the name of His Royal Imperial authority. All such tacks would probably have been futile, and Norton resorted to none of them. He simply bowed His head in silent prayer. The vigilantes dispersed

    Truly a man of peace, we need more like him today. Do you have the titanic nads to do what Emperor Norton did -- and succeed?

    To rot your brain with more Discordian propaganda about Emperor Norton, see here.

  4. Were you aware... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Were you aware that Patrick Bateman is a mere 11 years old?

    That's right, he can properly be referred to as "Master Bateman".


    Oh, and "CYIaBCo%s.... SUYA?!!!

  5. Goat ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  6. Eggplants! by Ace905 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does they keylogging system check for instances of, Eggplants!?

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  7. Just because you're offline... by obsessively+puzzled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just because you're offline at the moment, your email is subject to being searched without a wiretap order? That's what the affidavit seems to be implying. Does this make sense?

  8. Re:keystroke blackbox by wiredog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Use logarithms and a slide rule. They make the multiply/divides much easier.

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  9. Re:Oh, mother of God, NOT A PDF?!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I imagine the least Adobe could have done for the FBI was give it some free licenses for Distiller, after the nice way the FBI acted as Adobe's little corporate lapdog in the Sklyarov case.

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