Durch Bruce Schneier

US Drogedurchführungmittelgebrauch-Schlüsselblockwinden zu überbrückung PGP und Hushmail Verschlüsselung:

Ein Mittel mit der Droge-Durchführung-Leitung überzeugte einen Bundesrichter, ihn zu autorisieren, in ein Escondido, in Calif., in Büro geglaubt, eine Frontseite für die Produktion der Droge MDMA zu sein oder in Ekstase zu schleichen. Die DEA empfangene Erlaubnis, Inhalt zu kopieren der Festplattenlaufwerke' und eine Tastenanschlagblockwinde in die Computer einzuspritzen. Das war, nach Ansicht des DEA Vertreters Greg Coffey notwendig, weil die Verdächtigen PGP und den verschlüsselten Netze-mail Service Hushmail.com verwendeten. Coffey erklärte, daß das DEA „Realzeit- und sinnvoller Zugang“ „die Tastenanschläge“ für PGP und Hushmail passphrases überwachen mußte.

Und das FBI benutzte spyware zum Monitor jemand vermutet vom Bilden von Bombe Drohungen:

In an affidavit seeking a search warrant to use the software, filed last month in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington, FBI agent Norman Sanders describes the software as a “computer and internet protocol address verifier,” or CIPAV.The full capabilities of the FBI’s “computer and internet protocol address verifier” are closely guarded secrets, but here’s some of the data the malware collects from a computer immediately after infiltrating it, according to a bureau affidavit acquired by Wired News.

• IP address
• MAC address of ethernet cards
• A list of open TCP and UDP ports
• A list of running programs
• The operating system type, version and serial number
• The default internet browser and version
• The registered user of the operating system, and registered company name, if any
• The current logged-in user name
• The last visited URL

Once that data is gathered, the CIPAV begins secretly monitoring the computer’s internet use, logging every IP address to which the machine connects.

All that information is sent over the internet to an FBI computer in Virginia, likely located at the FBI’s technical laboratory in Quantico.

Sanders wrote that the spyware program gathers a wide range of information, including the computer’s IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer’s registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL.

The CIPAV then settles into a silent “pen register” mode, in which it lurks on the target computer and monitors its internet use, logging the IP address of every computer to which the machine connects for up to 60 days.

Another article.

I’ve been saying this for a while: the easiest way to get at someone’s communications is not by intercepting it in transit, but by accessing it on the sender’s or recipient’s computers.

I should add that the police got a warrant in both cases. This is not a story about abuse of police power or surveillance without a warrant. This is a story about how the police conducts electronic surveillance, and how they bypass security technologies.

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