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Sign up for the newsletter Sign up for The Weeds Get our essential policy newsletter delivered Fridays. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. The reviewers also found that Carnivore lacked both the protections to prevent someone from configuring it this way and the capability to track who did it if the configuration got changed.
By , the FBI had replaced Carnivore with commercial filters, but was still using other custom-built collection tools in the Carnivore family. But all of these network surveillance tools had one problem, the same issue plaguing law enforcement agencies today: encryption. FBI agents could use tools to siphon all the data they wanted as it crossed various networks, but if the data was encrypted, they couldn't read it. Enter key loggers designed to circumvent encryption by capturing keystrokes as a surveillance target typed, before encryption kicked in.
Scarfo was using encryption to protect his communications, and the FBI used a key loggerwhich was likely a commercially made toolto capture his PGP encryption key. Unlike key loggers today which can be remotely installed, however, the FBI had to physically break into Scarfo's office twice to install the logger on his computer and retrieve it, since Scarfo was using a dial-up internet connection that prevented authorities from reaching his computer remotely.
The FBI apparently went rogue in using the tool, however, because a government memo from Scarfo challenged the surveillance, arguing in a motion that the feds needed a wiretap order to capture the content of his communications and that a search warrant was insufficient.
His lawyers sought information about the keylogger, but the government insisted the technologywhich was already being used in the wild by hackerswas classified for national security reasons.
It's one of the same excuses the government uses today to keep a veil over its surveillance tools and techniques. The Scarfo case evidently convinced the feds that they needed to develop their own custom hacking tools, and in , reporters got wind of Magic Lantern , the code name for an FBI keylogger that apparently went beyond what the government had used against Scarfo, since this one could be installed remotely.
A former lawyer for Scarfo who has asked to remain anonymous says Magic Lantern was not the tool used on the mob boss, though he doesn't know the name of the tool that was. In addition to keystrokes, this new tool also recorded web browsing history, usernames and passwords and listed all the internet-facing ports open on a machine. It may have been used for the first time in Operation Trail Mix, an investigation of an animal rights group that occurred in and As recently revealed by the New York Times , the FBI used a tool to get around the encryption one suspect in the case was using; although the tool was never identified in court documents, it's believed to have been a keystroke logger.
After the news about Magic Lantern leaked in , the government managed to keep a tight lid on its hacking tools and techniques for nearly a decade. The documents described a surveillance tool called CIPAVComputer and Internet Protocol Address Verifierdesigned to collect a computer's IP and MAC address, an inventory of all open ports and software installed on the machine, as well as registry information, the username of anyone logged in and the last URL visited by the machine.
All of this data got sent to the FBI over the internet. CIPAV apparently didn't come with a keystroke logger, however, and didn't collect the contents of communication. Doppler radar devices , which can detect human breathing and movement within a home, are already being employed by the police to deliver arrest warrants. License plate readers, yet another law enforcement spying device made possible through funding by the Department of Homeland Security, can record up to license plates per minute.
Moreover, these surveillance cameras can also photograph those inside a moving car. State and federal law enforcement agencies are pushing to expand their biometric and DNA databases by requiring that anyone accused of a misdemeanor have their DNA collected and catalogued.
One system can actually scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away. Developers are hard at work on a radar gun that can actually show if you or someone in your car is texting. Case in point: police body cameras.
Hailed as the easy fix solution to police abuses, these body cameras—made possible by funding from the Department of Justice —turn police officers into roving surveillance cameras. These range from thermostats and coffee makers to cars and TVs. That price amounts to relinquishing ultimate control of and access to your home to the government and its corporate partners.
The FBI can also do the same thing to laptop computers without the owner knowing any better. Drones, which are taking to the skies en masse, are the converging point for all of the weapons and technology already available to law enforcement agencies. In fact, drones can listen in on your phone calls, see through the walls of your home, scan your biometrics, photograph you and track your movements, and even corral you with sophisticated weaponry. As investigative journalists Charlie Warzel and Stuart A.
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