Hi, I'm looking for a court decision about a case where FBI agents fooled russian hackers in order to gain their passwords and to intrude their computers.
Unfortunately (or better: fortunately) I'm unexperienced with the american court system. Can anyone give me a hint where/how I can get a copy of the decision or further information which court that judge belongs to? The decision I am looking for was described in a german computer magazine's newsticker: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/wst-19.08.02-000/ I'll try to translate the article: The russian secret service FSB has started an investigation against the american FBI agent Michael Schuler. He is accused of illegal intrusion into russian computers. Two years ago, he trapped two assumed russian hackers into the United States with a faked job offer of the faked company Invita Security. With a faked aptitude test the FBI stole the passwords of the russians and used them to download means of evidence from the hackers computers in rusia. A US court has declared those controversial methods of investigation to be legal. As reported by the US press, judge John C. Coughenour had disapproved the request of the lawyer of one of the accused to not accept the files downloaded by the FBI as means of evidence. The lawyer claimed that the fourth Amendment had been violated by the FBI. The judge objected that the computers had been outside the USA and had not been property of US citizens. For this reason the fourth amendment couldn't be applied. Furthermore, even if the FBI agents had downloaded the files without judicial permission, they had gained a permission before analyzing the 250 Gigabyte. regards Hadmut --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]