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Google Has Notified At Least Dozens of People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-the-record dept.

At least dozens of people have received an email from Google informing them that the internet giant responded to a request from the FBI demanding the release of user data, news outlet Motherboard reported Tuesday, citing several people who claimed to have received the email. The email did not specify whether Google released the requested data to the FBI. From the report: The unusual notice appears to be related to the case of Colton Grubbs, one of the creators of LuminosityLink, a $40 remote access tool (or RAT), that was marketed to hack and control computers remotely. Grubs pleaded guilty last year to creating and distributing the hacking tool to hundreds of people. Several people on Reddit, Twitter, and on HackForums, a popular forum where criminals and cybersecurity enthusiast discuss and sometimes share hacking tools, reported receiving the email. [...] The email included a legal process number. When Motherboard searched for it within PACER, the US government's database for court cases documents, it showed that it was part of a case that's still under seal.

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  1. "Smart move?" by tsa · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is this aing in avoiding arrest, or obstructing an investigation?

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    1. Re: "Smart move?" by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Remember when Nixon spied on a campaign?

      Nixon didn't get busted for "spying on a campaign". He got busted for hiring a bunch of actual criminals to burglarize the DNC headquarters.

      Sound familiar? Stealing stuff from the DNC in order to help a Republican candidate?

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    2. Re: "Smart move?" by whoever57 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I don't think Nixon was actually "busted". There was no impeachment, no criminal case.

      So arguing over what he was "busted for" would seem to be moot.

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  2. Re:Deep State Warnings by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Woodward's bool: TRUE or FALSE?

  3. Re: Trump is a retard, in his own words : by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The main point is that Trump's own staff did all they could to stop him speaking to Woodward.

    They're spending half their time shielding Trump from outsiders and the other half protecting the USA and the wider world from Trump.