Rather ingenious. At first my reaction when I read this was “did they have a warrant?”. Well, turns out they did. So, have at it. I’m all for hunting down the bad guys as long as law enforcement doesn’t become one in the process.
From CNet:
The FBI used a novel type of remotely installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash.
Federal agents obtained a court order on June 12 to send spyware called CIPAV to a MySpace account suspected of being used by the bomb threat hoaxster. Once implanted, the software was designed to report back to the FBI with the Internet Protocol address of the suspect’s computer, other information found on the PC and, notably, an ongoing log of the user’s outbound connections.
The suspect, former Timberline High School student Josh Glazebrook, was sentenced this week to 90 days in juvenile detention after pleading guilty to making bomb threats and other charges.
Read on.
[tags]FBI Spyware, CIPAV, MySpace, Bomb Threats[/tags]
