FBI Plants Spyware To Catch Criminal
July 22nd, 2007
A teenager in Washington state was using a MySpace account to send bomb threats to his school. The FBI was able to infect his home computer with spyware that harvested enough information to identify him. Details are not clear about exactly how the FBI managed to get the spyware installed on his computer, but the article covers several ways in which it might have been done.
Link: http://www.computerworld.com/…
(via Kim Komando)
