“The U.S. government wants to use these encryption-keystroke loggers to find criminals and terrorists. In a recent and highly publicized loan shark and racketeering case in New York, FBI agents obtained information using an encryption-keystroke logger placed on computers in suspected mobster Nicodemo Scarfo's New Jersey office. According to MSNBC, agents did so by breaking into the Scarfo office and individually installing the logger on each computer.”(Vamosi)

The first attempt of hacking or snooping by the government on networks like the Internet was carnivore. Carnivore is a system that is portable and can attach to a working Internet Service Provider’s network to intercept email. The only problem that has been raised is that unlike wiretapping Carnivore is not exclusive it has the potential to read all emails not just of the suspect in question. Another problem with Carnivore was the fact that up until the year 2000 congress had no idea that the FBI was using such technology after it had been in use for over a year (Baase). Once Carnivore was discovered by the courts they ruled that it was much like a wiretap and needed court approval before it could be implemented. Carnivore is not the last program that the government will come up with, and there is one already in the pipeline, code named “Magic Lantern”(Vamosi). This new program hatched by the great burocracy that is our government will be a keystroke logger, cleverly wrapped in the guise of a Trojan Horse. The field trial of such a program was done on a suspected mobster Nicodemo Scarfo.

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