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CA - Feds seek new ways to bypass encryption

Original Article 02/23/2011 By Declan McCullagh SAN FRANCISCO - When agents at the Drug Enforcement Administration learned a suspect was using PGP to encrypt documents, they persuaded a judge to let them sneak into an office complex and install a keystroke logger that recorded the passphrase as it was typed in. A decade ago, when the search warrant was granted, that kind of black bag job was a rarity. Today, however, law enforcement agents are encountering well-designed encryption products more and more frequently, forcing them to invent better ways to bypass or circumvent the technology. "Every new agent who goes to the Secret Service academy goes through a week of training" in computer forensics, including how to deal with encrypted files and hard drives, U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on March 07, 2011 (boomark / email).