Will security firms detect police spyware?將保安公司的檢測，警方間諜軟件？
By通過 Declan McCullagh 戴克瀾mccullagh and和 Anne Broache 安妮broache
A recent federal court decision raises the question of whether antivirus companies may intentionally overlook spyware that is secretly placed on computers by police. 最近聯邦法院的決定提出一個問題，是否防毒軟體公司可能故意忽視間諜軟件是秘密地放置在電腦警察。
In the在 case 案例 decided earlier this month by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger–call it fedware–to record the typing of a suspected Ecstasy manufacturer who used encryption to thwart the police.決定本月初由美國第九巡迴上訴法院，聯邦特工使用的間諜軟件與按鍵側錄程序通話，它fedware -記錄打字一名疑為搖頭丸製造商誰使用加密技術來阻撓警方。
A CNET News.com survey of 13 leading antispyware vendors found that not one company acknowledged cooperating unofficially with government agencies.一接受CNET news.com統計調查結果顯示， 13領導的反間諜供應商發現，沒有一家公司承認，合作與非正式的政府機構。 Some, however, indicated that they would not alert customers to the presence of fedware if they were ordered by a court to remain quiet.但是，有些人表示，他們不會提醒客戶，向在場的fedware ，如果他們被勒令由法院保持安靜。
Most of the companies surveyed, which covered the range from tiny firms to Symantec and IBM, said they never had received such a court order.大部分接受調查的公司，所涵蓋的範圍從小型公司賽門鐵克和IBM表示，他們從來沒有收到這樣的法庭命令。 The full list of companies surveyed: AVG/Grisoft, Computer Associates, Check Point, eEye, IBM, Kaspersky Lab, McAfee, Microsoft, Sana Security, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro and Websense.充分的公司名單調查：平均/ grisoft ， Computer Associates的Check Point公司EEye公司， IBM公司，卡巴斯基實驗室後， McAfee ，微軟，薩納安全， Sophos稱，賽門鐵克， Trend Micro和Websense的。 Only McAfee and Microsoft flatly declined to answer that question.只有McAfee和微軟斷然拒絕回答這個問題。 (Click （點擊 here 這裡 for the verbatim responses to the survey.)為逐字對調查的答复） 。
Because only two known criminal prosecutions in the United States involve police use of key loggers, important legal rules remain unsettled.因為只有兩個已知的刑事檢控，在美國涉及警察使用按鍵記錄程序，重要法律規則仍然是不了了之。 But key logger makers say that police and investigative agencies are frequent customers, in part because recording keystrokes can bypass the increasingly common use of encryption to scramble communications and hard drives.但關鍵記錄儀製造商說，警察和調查機構頻繁的客戶，部分原因是錄音按鍵就可以略過越來越普遍使用的加密爭奪通信和硬盤驅動器。 Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Apple’s OS X include built-in encryption.微軟的Windows Vista和蘋果公司的OS X包括一個內置在加密。
Some companies that responded to the survey were vehemently pro-privacy.一些公司對調查作出回應被強烈親的隱私。 “Our customers are paying us for a service, to protect them from all forms of malicious code,” said Marc Maiffret, eEye Digital Security’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “我們的客戶支付我們的服務，保護他們免受一切形式的惡意代碼，說： ”馬克邁弗萊特， eEye數字安全的共同創始人和技術總監。 “It is not up to us to do law enforcement’s job for them so we do not, and will not, make any exceptions for law enforcement malware or other tools.” eEye sells “這是不能達到我們這樣做執法的工作，為他們，所以我們不這樣做，並不會作出任何的例外情況為執法惡意代碼或其他工具” 。 eEye的銷售 Blink Personal 一眨眼個人 for $25, which includes antivirus and antispyware features.為25元，其中包括防病毒和反間諜功能。
Others were more conciliatory.其他人更多的和解。 Check Point, which makes the popular ZoneAlarm utility, said it would offer federal police the “same courtesy” that it extends to legitimate third-party vendors that request to be whitelisted. Check Point的，這使得流行的ZoneAlarm公用事業中表示，它將提供聯邦警察“相同的禮貌” ，它延伸到合法的第三方供應商認為，要求被列入白名單。 A Check Point representative said, though, that the company had “never been” in that situation. 1 Check Point的代表說，雖然，該公司“從未”在這種情況下。
This isn’t exactly a new question.這是不完全一個新的問題。 After the last之後，去年 high-profile case 高姿態的情況 in which federal agents turned to a key logger, some security companies allegedly volunteered to ignore fedware.在其中聯邦特工轉向的一個關鍵記錄，有些保安公司，據稱，自動請纓，忽視fedware 。 The Associated Press美聯社記者 reported 報告 in 2001 that “McAfee Corp. contacted the FBI… to ensure its software wouldn’t inadvertently detect the bureau’s snooping software.” McAfee subsequently said the report was inaccurate.在2001年“的McAfee公司接觸，聯邦調查局… ，以確保其軟件不會無意中檢測局的窺探軟件” McAfee的，後來說，該報告是不準確的。
Later that year, the FBI confirmed that it was creating spy software called “後來這一年，美國聯邦調查局證實，它創造了間諜軟件的所謂“ Magic Lantern 魔術彩燈 ” that would allow agents to inject keystroke loggers remotely through a virus without having physical access to the computer. “這將使代理商注入鍵盤側錄程式遠端透過病毒而無需實際接觸到計算機。 (In both the recent Ecstasy case and the earlier （在雙方最近的搖頭丸案件，以及較早前 key logging case involving an alleged mobster 關鍵測井一宗涉及一名涉嫌mobster , federal agents obtained court orders authorizing them to break into buildings to install key loggers.) ，聯邦特工取得法庭命令，授權他們破門進入樓宇安裝按鍵記錄程序） 。
Government agencies and backdoors in technology products have a long and frequently clandestine relationship.政府機構和後門在技術產品有著悠久的和經常的秘密關係。 One 1995 expose by the Baltimore Sun described how the National Security Agency persuaded a Swiss firm, Crypto, to build backdoors into its encryption devices.一， 1995年揭露由巴爾的摩太陽報描述如何國家安全局說服一家瑞士公司，加密，建立後門納入其加密設備。 In his 1982 book, The Puzzle Palace , author James Bamford described how the NSA’s predecessor in 1945 coerced Western Union, RCA and ITT Communications to turn over telegraph traffic to the feds.在他1982年圖書，益智宮 ，作者詹姆斯bamford描述如何，國家安全局的前身在1945年被脅迫西方聯盟， RCA和itt通訊把電報業務量，以聯邦調查局。
More recently, after the BBC最近，英國廣播公司後， reported 報告 last year on去年就 supposed 假定 talks between the British government and Microsoft, the software maker之間的會談，英國政府和微軟，軟件製造商 pledged 承諾 not to build backdoors into Windows Vista’s encryption functions.沒有建立後門進入Windows Vista的加密功能。
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