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FBI Used Spyware for Online Search

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-surprised-here dept.

juct writes "The FBI has used PC spyware for the first time to reveal the identity of an offender who sent bomb threats to a high school in Washington state. According to heise Security, a declaration from the FBI official who applied for the search warrant describes the mode of operation of the spyware which the FBI is using under the abbreviation CIPAV (Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier)."

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  1. Please tell me why I should run Windows? by whoever57 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Of course, the "if you have nothing to hide..." crowd are likely to be out, but what about rogue agents? What about investigations that target the wrong people by accident?

    I suspect that getting such a tool installed on my Linux box would be much harder.

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    The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
  2. Re:More Firefighters Needed! by jsse · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Now I can see the purpose of Firehose now...

    It's now our fault in voting up a dupe, not /. editors, definitely not...

    Now /. needs to develop another system to penalize those who repeatedly vote a dupe, namely "List of idiotic dupers"