FBI spyware admission opens can of worms
Philip Hunter · Computer Fraud & Security · 2007
The recent case where keyloggers were installed by US authorities to catch a bomb hoaxer in Washington could pave the way towards normalisation of the detection method. A spyware keylogger quickly led the FBI to Josh Glazebrook, a student at the Timberline High School, who was sentenced in mid July to 90 days in juvenile detention after pleading guilty to making bomb threats and other charges. Could it become a routine tool in courts of law like DNA and fingerprinting? An obvious question is how did the spyware evade anti-virus detection? Philip Hunter looks at mounting surveillance from governments, which use spyware