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  • May
  • 05
  • 2008

Wiretapping is really, really easy

Ask Pellicano, whose case went to the jury last week, and offered arguably more for people who enjoy talk of encryption software, code-wiping booby traps or the low-tech secrets of phone company networks than anyone else.

Indeed, the F.B.I. decrypted scores of Mr. Pellicano’s recordings after noticing that some of his pass phrases were written into the software’s source code itself — a rookie mistake, cryptology experts say. Several…


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