FBI's Hacks Don't Comply With Legal Safeguards

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @02:17PM from the like-the-wild-west,-but-with-XSS-instead-of-guns dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The FBI hacks computers. Specifics are scarce, and only a trickle of news has emerged from court filings and FOIA responses. But we know it happens. In a new law review article, a Stanford Ph.D. candidate and privacy expert pulls together what's been disclosed, and then matches it against established law. The results sure aren't pretty. FBI agents deceive judges, ignore time limits, don't tell computer owners after they've been hacked, and don't get 'super-warrants' for webcam snooping. Whatever you think of law enforcement hacking, it probably shouldn't be this lawless.

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Re: Surprise? by networkzombie · 2015-07-21 18:41 · Score: -1, Troll

You have done a fine job indicating that many Americans cannot see past their shoelaces, and that you are an extremist fruit-cake nut-ball head-case that should be watched carefully. Why not actually do something useful, like run for office and kill Rider Bills, or educate young people that a race to the bottom is literally a race to the bottom, or better yet, learn that not everyone in the U.S. is watching TV. As for Waco, maybe you should learn that it the FBI does actual bad deeds everyday, but that was not one of them. Jimmy, is that you?