Giuseppe Santalucia, the president of
Italian magistrates union ANM, on Monday wrote to Justice
Minister Carlo Nordio asking for a meeting to discuss the issue
of the security of judicial databases.
The move comes with Perugia prosecutors probing 14 people,
including finance police officer Pasquale Striano, in relation
to alleged illegal access to the data of numerous public figures
including politicians and celebrities while he was in service in
the National Anti-mafia Prosecutor's Department.
"Recent news reports on criminal investigations for multiple
abusive accesses to the computer systems of the justice network
have created alarm among magistrates over the poor security
levels of the devices and platforms used in the daily exercise
of their delicate functions," Santalucia wrote in the letter.
"The perception is that the IT security structures of the entire
justice network are not adequate at all, and it would be useful
for the ANM, via which most of the widespread concerns are
channelled, to have some information, within the limits of what
is possible, that could reassure or in any case give the correct
idea o the scale of the phenomenon described in alarming terms
in the media".
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