Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 02:41:46 -0400
From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique -Judge
To: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)


http://www.go2net.com/headlines/politics/20010807/347286.html

  FBI Must Reveal Computer Snooping Technique -Judge
Aug 7 6:27pm ET

NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the 
government to reveal the high-tech computer snooping technique used 
by the FBI to gather evidence against an alleged mobster.

In a case that privacy advocates say smacks of Big Brother, U.S. 
District Judge Nicholas Politan ruled that the government must reveal 
the details of the computer monitoring system it used to gather 
evidence against Nicodemo Scarfo Jr., who is charged with running 
illegal gambling and loan-sharking operations for the Gambino crime 
family.

Scarfo is the son of imprisoned mobster Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo.

The case is believed to be the first in the nation in which federa 
agents installed a secret surveillance system in a personal computer 
system under search warrant, and the first to be tested in U.S. 
courts.

The FBI recorded virtually every keystroke made on Scarfo's computer 
at his Belleville, New Jersey, business, including passwords, using a 
"key logger" device.


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