Monday, April 20, 2009

The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 20, @11:00AM

from the who-watches-the-watchers dept.
Privacy
G_of_the_J writes"A man who had cut 18 cables affecting Verizon and Comcast was blackmailing them. He had demanded bank accounts be set up and information be provided on web sites that he specified. Although he used anonymous access to get to the web sites, the FBI had planted a trojan which was downloaded to his computer. The trojan then sent his IP address and other information to the FBI."

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