planting software or web bug? (Score 1)

The article says "detectives tried to plant software on at least one journalist's computer that would enable messages to be traced", but if you read the end, it sounds like they put a web bug (image link) in an email to see who the email was forwarded to.

While this investigation as a whole seems abhorent, a web bug seems less invasive (and probably less illegal) than the implied act of installing spyware on someone elses's computer.