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Justice, Report's alarm: 'Access to magistrates' PCs without permission'. Nordio: "Surreal accusations"

In the investigation to be aired on Sunday on Rai3, the programme claims, with documents and audio-visual testimonies, that since 2019 an application installed on around 40,000 judicial computers allows remote access

by Rome Editorial Staff

21 January 2026

2' min read

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Versione italiana

Key points

From 2019 'official' maintenance installation
"Remote access" and risk control of magistrates
The case raised in 2024 and "silenced"
The Ministry's 'reassurances' and Report's reply

2' min read

Translated by AI

Versione italiana

A software installed on the computers of Public Prosecutors' Offices and Courts that, in addition to maintenance, could allow remote access and video surveillance of magistrates without leaving a trace. This is what Report announced in an episode aired on Sunday evening on Rai3, claiming to be able to prove it with documents and audio and video testimonies.

According to the programme's press release, the software would be present on about 40,000 computers in the administration of justice: from devices in use by non-judicial personnel to those of judges and prosecutors of all ranks.

From 2019 'official' installation for maintenance

Report claims that as of 2019, technicians from the Ministry of Justice's Department for Technological Innovation would have installed the programme on all devices in public prosecutors' offices, courts and judicial offices in Italy, with the official motivation of uniformly managing the maintenance of the systems.

The point, however, is what this programme would allow for in addition, according to the Rai programme's reconstruction.

"Remote access" and risk control of magistrates

The software described in the press release would also offer the possibility of remote access to computers. Translated: hundreds of technicians, internal and external to the Ministry, 'if they wanted to' could hack into magistrates' computers without asking permission and, above all, without leaving a trace, according to Report.

The communiqué explicitly mentions the possibility of 'video surveillance of magistrates' through this IT tool.

The case raised in 2024 and "silenced"

Report states that the case was allegedly raised by a leading Italian prosecutor's office in 2024, but was subsequently hushed up by ministerial leaders. The decision, it says, was made at the request of the Prime Minister's Office, according to a ministerial executive quoted in the statement.

The Ministry's 'reassurances'

Report also reported that the Ministry had provided reassurances to the Prosecutor's Office. However, the programme claims that these assurances would not correspond to the truth, and that the episode aired on Rai3 would prove this through exclusive documents and testimonies.

According to a note by Minister Nordio, these are 'surreal accusations; the infrastructure used in the judicial offices is the same PC management and security system already in operation since 2019, as the ministers who preceded me can certainly confirm. It does not allow surveillance of magistrates' activities, it does not read content, it does not record keystrokes or screens, it does not activate microphones/webcams. The remote control functions are not active nor have they ever been activated'.

The minister emphasises that there is 'no big brother'. "In any case, their possible use would require a request from the user and his explicit confirmation: it could not therefore take place without his knowledge. Every intervention would in any case be traced in the systems,' he continues. 'The news spread, without due investigation, by Sigfrido Ranucci via Facebook, which certainly has a purpose: to arouse social alarm in order to misguide public opinion, is disconcerting. The security of the systems protects, not conditions, the work of the magistrates'.