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Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits

posted by janrinok on Thursday October 27 2016, @03:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the hacking-is-legal dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

A US judge overseeing an FBI "Playpen case" has told agents to reveal whether or not their investigative hacking was approved by the White House.

The case is one of several the Feds are pursuing against more than 100 alleged users of the child sex abuse material exchange network called the Playpen. The prosecutions have become test grounds over investigators' use of hacking tools to unmask Tor users – Playpen was hidden in the Tor network and agents injected tracking software into Playpen visitors' browsers to identify users.

In June, a judge hearing one of the Playpen cases in Virginia ruled that the FBI can hack any computer in any country, if it wants.

During its investigation, the FBI compromised Playpen's Tor-protected distribution servers, leaving them in operation to keep users visiting the service. The Feds then hacked the targets' computers to identify the owners.

It's not a crime if the President orders it.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @05:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @05:44AM (#419297)

    And yet some people demand doctors perform abortions BECAUSE ITS THE FUCKING LAW somesuch other nonsense from majority rule to whatever ruffled shirt political fad is in fashion these days.

    No real point, but apparently the Nuremberg defense is a-okay if it aligns with your greater good.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:00AM (#419310)

    And yet some people demand doctors perform abortions BECAUSE ITS THE FUCKING LAW somesuch other nonsense from majority rule to whatever ruffled shirt political fad is in fashion these days.

    Seriously? I'd have expected that "sorry, I'm not an abortion doctor" would get you out of such a rule.

    • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Thursday October 27 2016, @09:16AM

      by Dunbal (3515) on Thursday October 27 2016, @09:16AM (#419335)

      I'd have expected that "sorry, I'm not an abortion doctor" would get you out of such a rule.

      It does.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @07:01AM (#419311)

    President’s order is not a law.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:24AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:24AM (#419355)

    heh, a non cow:
    do i own my own body or not ? ? ?
    sounds like a pretty basic question of morals, and yet it appears you are answering 'no, you don't own your own body, i, a non cow get to determine what you do with it...'
    alrighty then, kindly FOAD, is my DEMAND for 'our'/your body...
    why not, you have established that 'principle'...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @03:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @03:58PM (#419449)

    You do know that abortion was illegal in nazi germany don't you. It's harder to conquer the world without lots of cannon fodder.