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| Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:45:28 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: To locate bank robber, FBI unusually asked for warrant to use stingray Message-ID: <C549E77E-D4D3-4A08-B1EE-96A7EE7C1211@roscom.com> To locate bank robber, FBI unusually asked for warrant to use stingray Newly uncovered court documents in a federal armed New Jersey bank robbery case that went to trial in late February 2015 reveal an unusual back-and-forth between authorities and judges - ultimately resulting in the FBI seeking and getting a warrant to use a stingray. The move illustrates a rare known instance where authorities met the probable cause hurdle need for a warrant in a stingray deployment. In 2012, federal prosecutors went to a judge to ask for a "pen/trap order," a lower type of permission than a warrant. Such an order would have effectively authorized the use of a stingray. But the judge pushed back and imposed usage restrictions "in a private place." In January 2015, two United States senators made public the FBI's position that the agency could use stingrays in public places without a warrant. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/to-locate-bank-robber-fbi-unusually-asked-for-warrant-to-use-stingray/ -or- http://goo.gl/srxNvg |
| Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 09:31:44 -0500 From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com> To: telecomdigestsubmissions.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org. Subject: Apple and Android SSL is WIDE OPEN to snoopers Message-ID: <E31B207E-C157-49B8-A704-42B7AC95CFCC@roscom.com> FREAK out: Apple and Android SSL is WIDE OPEN to snoopers OpenSSL, iOS and OS X tricked into using weak 1990s-grade encryption keys http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/03/government_crippleware_freaks_out_tlsssl/ -or- http://goo.gl/UKIxfb "FREAK" flaw in Android and Apple devices cripples HTTPS crypto protection http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/freak-flaw-in-android-and-apple-devices-cripples-https-crypto-protection/ -or- http://goo.gl/JCcJXa ***** Moderator's Note ***** Maybe we should bring back the Clipper chip, and get some standards and a public policy debate going. That someone is going to be snooping is now obvious; we need only to decide who and how. Bill Horne Moderator |
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