Judge Upholds FBI Keyboard Sniffing

mshiltonj writes: "Wired is reporting that keyboard sniffing can be used to catch "mobsters." I feel safer already. You can read the ruling. Here's a snippet: "This case presents an interesting issue of first impression dealing with the ever-present tension between individual privacy and liberty rights and law enforcement's use of new and advanced technology to vigorously investigate criminal activity. It appears that no district court in the country has addressed a similar issue. Of course, the matter takes on added importance in light of recent events and potential national security implications." Translation: Don't deny us this tool or you'll be blamed for us not catching terrorists." See also an Infoworld article. We have several previous stories on the Scarfo case.

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Re:Keyboard sniffing, anthrax, and the media

[I_redwolf]

Simple, the first victim touched the keyboard and then wiped their nose, this allowed the Anthrax spores to be spread through the nasal cavity. It's really a brilliant way to distribute Anthrax if you have a specific target. How many times a day does one touch a keyboard in his/her work place and how many times does the same person wipe their nose?

For me, I'm always at my keyboard and probably wipe my nose very infrequently and I might even do it without noticing but the Anthrax spores will still be there for a while it's not like they die off in 5 minutes so I eventually will wipe my nose and be infected by Anthrax.

This just in

[cnkeller]

The department of education has been dissolved for failing to teach proper english, after it was leaked by the FBI that hundreds of thousands of US slashdot posters used both syntatic and grammatically incorrect English....

[OT] About your sig

[Zen Mastuh]

I'm definitely getting modded down for this (Moderators: use "Offtopic", please!) off topic post, but frankly I don't get your sig. Do you mean to tell me god has sacks? Does he weigh them out to 7.10 grams?