Regulating Law Enforcement use of Trojans: Implementing a Law to juridically, operationally and technically regulate the uses of Trojan in Italy

Presented at Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), Aug. 7, 2017, 3:35 p.m. (60 minutes)

The complexity of implementing a policy (law) and related operational and technical procedures to regulate the uses of Trojan by Law Enforcement in a way that protect civil rights while not preventing investigations from going on with the right balance of juridical/technical implementation. #Legal #Politics #Society This talk will explain what the legal and related technical and operational problems with the uses of Trojan by law enforcement are (note: only LEA, we are not speaking of intelligence/NSA/GCHQ/etc). We've setup in Italy a team of a technologist MP, a IT-skilled Lawyers and an Hacker/Privacy Activists, to goes trough the difficult trip to achieve the implementation of a Legislation that works either on paper, either technically that can have a shared consensus among usually opposing parties such as civil rights organization and security apparatus (law enforcement & prosecutors). We'll explain the bit of history and experience in setting up such a law (how to do it in your own country!), which are the logical framework, the juridical framework, the operational framework and the technical choices to do it. We hope that this experience represent a milestone in regulating something (the Trojan) that are here to stay, given the increase of default IP encryption with the corresponding decrease in investigative power trough passive IP surveillance system.

Presenters:

  • Fabio Pietrosanti / naif as Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
    Entrepreneur, Technologist, Privacy and Transparency Activists working actively on GlobaLeaks, Tor2web acting as a President of Hermes Center, Tor's community afficionado Fabio Pietrosanti has been part of the hacking digital underground with the nickname “naif” since 1995, while he’ve been professional working in digital security since 1998. President and co-founder of the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, he is active in many projects to create and spread the user of digital tools in support of freedom of expression and transparency. Member of Transparency International Italy, owner of Tor’s anonymity nodes, Tor2web anonymous publishing nodes, he is among the founders of the Anonymous Whistleblowing GlobaLeaks Project, nowadays used within the investigative journalists, citizen activist and public administration for anti corruption purposes. He does technological innovation in the field of whistleblowing, transparency, communication encryption and digital anonymity. As a veteran of the hacking and free software environment, he has participated to many community projects such as Sikurezza.org, s0ftpj, Winston Smith Project, Metro Olografix among others. Professionally he has worked as network security manager, senior security advisor, entrepreneur and CTO of a Startup doing mobile voice encryption technologies.

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