Security firms on police spyware

In a case decided earlier this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger to record the typing of a suspect who used encryption to scramble his communications. But would that government spyware used in that investigation actually be detected by security software? Or would security companies intentionally fail to report it?

To answer that question, CNET News.com performed the following survey. We asked three questions of 13 security companies, ranging from tiny ones to corporations like Microsoft and IBM, and the results are below.

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Will security firms detect police spyware?
Most of the companies surveyed, which covered the range from tiny firms to Symantec and IBM, said they never had received such a court order. Only McAfee and Microsoft flatly declined to answer that question.

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