FBI Sought Approval To Use Spyware Through FISC 92
An anonymous reader writes "Wired is reporting that the FBI sought approval to use its custom spyware program, CIPAV, from the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in terrorism or spying investigations. Affidavits prepared for the court are among 3,000 pages of documents gathered, but not yet released, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Wired. The FBI hasn't answered any questions about its use of the CIPAV since the program's existence became widely known in July. The FISC is generally regarded as a rubber stamp; it approved over 4,000 surveillance requests in 2005 and 2006[PDF], rejecting none."
Meh, IT reporting these days... (Score:5, Funny)
Sheesh, I mean, I know IT reporting has gone down teh tubes, but really... maybe if Wired wants to get info from the FBI, they should actually respond to the invite and submit questions -- maybe then they'd hear back.
/Sorry, deliberately obtuse tonight.
Re:Well, I'm glad I use Linux (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Government Spyware (Score:3, Funny)
FBI Spyware (Score:5, Funny)
I would just like to know, what could the FBI do to make it's spy ware different from anything else out there in the wild?
Features
It's not really funny.
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2003? (Score:3, Funny)
They say it was a mistake, but I still doubt it. Might have saved his life though; I once maintained a list, on a now defunct site, that listed Senators killed in plane crashes. Oddest thing, almost all Democrats and the Republicans were pacifists or otherwise "left-leaning" (Paul Wellstone [D] and John Heinz [R] for example).
Sure, all just a coincidence, I'm sure of it. Well, pretty sure. Maybe we should be putting spyware on the FBI's machines?
Oh yeah I can see it now. (Score:3, Funny)
"What are you waiting for man? Open it!"