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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Gov. Gilmore and anti-terror panel call for secret "cyber court"
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- Subject: [FYI] (Fwd) FC: Gov. Gilmore and anti-terror panel call for secret "cyber court"
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 19:03:43 +0200
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Date sent: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:03:22 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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Subject: FC: Gov. Gilmore and anti-terror panel call for secret "cyber court"
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House committee press release:
http://www.house.gov/science/press/107pr/107-103.htm
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http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47676,00.html
Governor Calls for 'Cyber Court'
By Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
2:00 a.m. Oct. 18, 2001 PDT
WASHINGTON -- Malicious hackers, look out.
A government anti-terrorism commission will recommend that Congress
create a shadowy court to oversee investigations of suspected
computer intruders.
Gov. James Gilmore (R-Virginia), the commission's chairman, said
Wednesday that federal judges have been far too sluggish in
approving search warrants and eavesdropping of online miscreants.
Instead, Gilmore told the House Science committee, the commission
will recommend that a "cyber court" be created with extraordinary
powers to authorize electronic surveillance and secret searches of
suspected hackers' homes and offices.
Police investigations are currently hamstrung by a lack of
"effective procedures and understanding by many in the judiciary
concerning the nature and urgency of cyber security," Gilmore said.
[...]
Gilmore offered few details on the proposal to create a
hacker-court. A House press release says only that the commission
will recommend the "establishment of a special 'Cyber Court'
patterned after the court established in the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act."
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