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Security firms on police spyware |
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
In a case decided earlier this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger to record the typing of a suspect who used encryption to scramble his communications.
But would that government spyware used in that investigation actually be detected by security software? Or would security companies intentionally fail to report it?
To answer that question, CNET News.com performed the following survey. We asked three questions of 13 security companies, ranging from tiny ones to corporations like Microsoft and IBM, and the results are here .
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