Scarfo "keylogger", PGP

[Rick Smith at Secure Computing]

At 09:59 AM 10/16/2001, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

>The affidavit is extremely complex and hard to unravel, whether to try to
>preserve secrecy, in the hope that it will confuse the defence/Court, or
>perhaps it's just legalese, I don't know.

I spoke to someone a couple of years ago who had tried to establish a set 
of technical standards for handling host security logs so that they could 
be used as legal evidence, and ran into a stone wall at the Justice 
Department. Evidently they feared that defendants could manipulate any such 
standards to ensure that *no* electronic evidence could ever stand up in court.

I suspect the affidavit is badly written so that it meets the minimum 
standard for the court while providing as little useful information as 
possible.


Rick.
smith at securecomputing.com            roseville, minnesota
"Authentication" in bookstores http://www.visi.com/crypto/




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