The point about the software being legal seems fairly moot as I suspect MrCoffee was pointing out. I think it'd be relatively hard to write illegal software. The only thing that I can think of that comes close but is still not the same is software that is illegal to export. Sounds like the lawyer was "bullsh***ing" in order to make his client look better, but without actually saying anything interesting. Guess that's lawyer's for you.

Did anyone notice the point that one of the companies made about getting the private investigator to sign a contract stating that they would not break the law? I apologise for being paranoid, but does that not seem fairly naive? It also seems like at least one of the companies being spied upon did not have particularly good IT support (or however you want to put it), because they released a statement saying that trojans were space age tools that you'd see in James Bond or star wars. Sounds like no-one bothered explaining what a trojan was to them.

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