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Date: 2001-08-12
Keystroke-Logging und das FBI-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- McCullaghed [Wired] und Thomas Greene [The Register] ausgebrochen. Der neue FBI-Direktor Robert Mueller hat vor einem Senatsauschuss angegeben, von der erwähnten Technik zur Überwachung von Keyboard-Eingaben keine Ahnung zu haben. Greene wiederum hat ein Dokument des CERT zum Thema Key- logging von 1992 ausgegraben und siehe - Robert Mueller kam darin vor. Related http://www.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg01570.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- by Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> I'm a big fan of Thomas' work, but I don't think his article below makes the case that our new FBI director lied to Congress. The 1992 CERT advisory -- Robert Mueller is listed in the acknowledgements -- talks about keystroke logging of the form done by system and network administrators. (http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-19.html) The obvious methods at the time to do so were tools like tcpdump and even printers hooked up in the way Cliff Stoll documents in the Cuckoo's Egg. There's a big difference between monitoring what users are doing on a multi-user, networked Unix system accessed entirely remotely and recording what one person is typing locally on a Windows PC. Last week I posted the transcript of Mueller's comments before the Senate Judiciary committee. In response to a question about the Scarfo monitoring technology, which the FBi developed internally in the last few years, he replied: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02341.html >MR. MUELLER: I'm not familiar with that new technology, have not had >occasion to use it in our district. I read the same article that the >senator read, with interest, because it was the first I'd ever heard if >it. Until I know more about it, I really don't think I can commit one way >or the other. Those comments seem to be truthful. I don't think the Scarfo technology -- based on what we know of it -- is anything near what the CERT advisory is talking about. -Declan ********* From: "Thomas C. Greene" <tcgreene@bellatlantic.net> Subject: FBI chief Mueller lied to Senate about key-logging Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 15:06:07 -0700 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20894.html FBI chief Mueller lied to Senate about key-logging By Thomas C Greene in Washington mailto:thomas.greene@theregister.co.uk New FBI chief Robert Mueller's testimony before the US Senate during his confirmation hearing last week, to the effect that he had no understanding of key-logging technology, sounded very wrong to us. We were hoping that he was just exhibiting naiveté when, under questioning from US Senator Maria Cantwell (Democrat, Washington State) about the FBI's prosecution of mobster Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. by means of a black-bag job involving a key logger, Mueller claimed that he's "not familiar with that new technology, and [had] not had occasion to use it in [his] district." We figured that little gem had to be either a bald-faced lie, or evidence of his technical incompetence and consequent unfitness to lead the FBI in the 21st Century. Naturally, we all prefer honest incompetence to active deceit, and we were hoping that the second explanation would prove right; but we're sorry to report that we've got evidence that actually Mueller knows a great deal about key-logging technology. If we consult the following advisory http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-19.html from the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, we find that Mueller contributed to a report on the legalities of installing key-logging technology on a network. The bulletin advises systems administrators that because key logging could be controversial (as the courts had yet to rule on its legality), it would be best to put a prominent banner warning users and intruders alike that their comings and goings will be monitored. The bulletin is dated December 1992, revised September 1997. Clearly, Mueller has been well acquainted with the technology he told Congress he knows nothing about. Sadly, it appears he lied to Congress. And even if he was splitting hairs, i.e., speaking of a very specific implementation of key- logging technology which he himself hasn't yet played with, he's still deceitful. He might have been a man about it, and declined to answer on grounds that the technology in question is currently being tested in the courts -- that is, in the Scarfo case. At least he would have shown some spine. But by fobbing off the question with a lie, or with a split-hair statement calculated to mislead the Senate, he's demonstrated that he's afraid of tough questions, and eager to take the coward's path out. It's a very sad symbol of his brand-new tenure, and a most horrible way to start it. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 2001-08-12 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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