[privacy] FBI's Custom 'CIPAV' Spyware Taken to Secretive Surveillance Court

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via Threat Level.

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The FBI sought approval to use its CIPAV spyware program from the secretive
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in terrorism or foreign spying
cases, THREAT LEVEL has learned.

As first reported by Wired.com, the software, called a "computer and
internet protocol address verifier," is designed to infiltrate a suspect's
computer and collect various information, including the IP address,
Ethernet MAC addresses, a list of open TCP and UDP ports, running programs,
operating system type and serial number, default browser, the registered
user of the operating system and the last visited URL, among other things.

That information is sent covertly to an FBI computer in Quantico, Virginia.
The CIPAV then monitors and reports on all the target's internet use,
logging every IP address to which the machine connects.

The FBI's use of the technology surfaced in July when Wired discovered an
affidavit in an investigation into a series of high school bomb hoaxes in
which the bureau traced the culprit using the program.

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More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/secretive-surve.html

- - ferg

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