–Deputy Convicted of Unauthorized Eavesdropping
(April 25, 2007)
A Monroe County (NY) sheriff's deputy has been convicted of felony eavesdropping for conducting unauthorized computer surveillance on a neighbor. Investigator R. Michael Hildreth, one of the first deputies to be assigned full time to a computer crimes unit, used maliciously crafted email and a computer disk to plant keystroke logging software on his neighbor's computer. Hildreth suspected the neighbor of illegal activity, but gathered no evidence. Hildreth will be sentenced in June.
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