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FBI-CIPAV.exe Is an Unknown Application. Install Anyway?

in News on July 19, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Now that the FBI has made “significant progress in decreasing the rate of loss for … laptops,” it can get on with the much more important business of using them to nab bad guys. Bad guys like former Timberline High School student Josh Glazebrook of Lacey, Wash., who pleaded guilty to emailing bomb threats and other charges after the bureau tracked him down with a piece of spyware called a Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier, or CIPAV.