[privacy] Vermont Attorneys Accuse Feds of Tapping Phone, Hacking

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via GovExec's Tech Insider.

[snip]

This news item certainly will heap more suspicion on the Bush
administration’s tactics for fighting terrorism.

A law firm in Vermont, which represents a client in Afghanistan and a
prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, is accusing the federal government of tapping
its phones and hacking into a computer used by one of the firm's partners,
according to an article posted by the Burlington Free Press. Three partners
in the law firm Gensburg, Atwell & Broderick recently sent a letter to
clients telling them the firm "can't guarantee their communications were
confidential," according to the article. The firm said it had found its
phone lines crossed and that a computer forensic examination of the
computer used by Robert Gensburg "found an application that disabled all
security software and would have given someone access to all information on
the computer," according to the article.

Gensberg said there may be an innocent explanation for the problems -- such
as he may have accidentally downloaded some malware from the Internet --
but "we are quite confident that it is the United States government that
has been doing the phone tapping and computer hacking," the lawyers wrote
in their Oct. 2 letter to clients.

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More:
http://blogs.govexec.com/techinsider/archives/2007/10/more_accusations_of_f
ederal_ph.php

- - ferg

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