Begin forwarded message:
From: Jonathan Zittrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 5, 2006 5:24:50 PM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: more on cell phone bugging
Dave and IP,
If it becomes common practice to individually reprogram cell phones
on the fly to record phone calls or ambient discussion and pass the
contents back to the government after a warrant requirement or some
other administrative procedure has been met, it's a close next step
to use that procedure to demand that Microsoft, Apple, Symantec,
McAfee, or any other software supplier that has auto-update
capabilities and local administrator privileges surreptitiously
download and install an update on a PC of someone suspected of
something. That update would then allow the gov't to explore the
PC's contents from afar. I wrote something up on this prospect at
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=916046>. ...JZ
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