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Matt Blaze finds flaws in FBI wiretap equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Nov 30 10:54:40 2005
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:53:26 -0500
New York Times article:
Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and JOHN MARKOFF
Published: November 30, 2005
The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap
telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped
to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer
security experts who studied the system. It is also possible to
falsify the numbers dialed, they said.
Someone being wiretapped can easily employ these "devastating
countermeasures" with off-the-shelf equipment, said the lead
researcher, Matt Blaze, an associate professor of computer and
information science at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/national/30tap.html
original paper at:
http://www.crypto.com/papers/wiretapping/
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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