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FBI Hacked Over 8,000 Computers In 120 Countries Based on One Warrant (vice.com)
Joseph Cox, reporting for Motherboard: In January, Motherboard reported on the FBI's "unprecedented" hacking operation, in which the agency, using a single warrant, deployed malware to over one thousand alleged visitors of a dark web child pornography site. Now, it has emerged that the campaign was actually several orders of magnitude larger. In all, the FBI obtained over 8,000 IP addresses, and hacked computers in 120 different countries, according to a transcript from a recent evidentiary hearing in a related case. The figures illustrate the largest ever known law enforcement hacking campaign to date, and starkly demonstrate what the future of policing crime on the dark web may look like. This news comes as the US is preparing to usher in changes that would allow magistrate judges to authorize the mass hacking of computers, wherever in the world they may be located.
The FBI, by law, is not permitted to hack computers in other countries.
If that were true, we wouldn't be in a democracy, but a plutocratic oligopoly pretending to be a democracy, living outside the Rule of Law like a Banana Republic ...
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It's like dark matter or dark energy. You can't really interact with it, but we're sure it's there because we can somehow see its effects.
Though in the end, we might find out that it's something completely different that we didn't take into account.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
According to the transcripts, the FBI also hacked OUTER SPACE! (check TFA, it is right there, this isn't a joke)
deployed malware to over one thousand alleged visitors of a dark web child pornography site. Now, it has emerged that the campaign was actually several orders of magnitude larger.
several orders of magnitude... really?
Am I to believe that the FBI hacked over 1,000,000 computers? Oh wait, that's not at all what happened. Why is it that journalists and journalistic websites (people and organizations whose entire livelihood depends upon the written word) can't even perform the most basic of editing reviews? Were I an editor, such a clearly hyperbolic and improperly used statement would never have made it to publication.
Note that my gripe is not with the /. editor, but with Motherboard.
Base 2.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
5 different comments on "Orders of magnitude" and only one on a US agency illegally hacking computers in other countries... I think you are missing the bigger picture.