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

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: 2, Touché) by Francis on Thursday October 27 2016, @02:23PM

    by Francis (5544) on Thursday October 27 2016, @02:23PM (#419415)

    The US absolutely did have concentration camps, it's just that we called them internment camps. That and the fact that they weren't adjacent to death camps.

    It's rather unfortunate, that we've chosen to roll the notion of a death camp into the notion of a concentration camp when they're not really the same thing.

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