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.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:01PM
The internment of the Japanese was atrocious, but not up to the level of the Nazis or the Trail of Tears. There was no particular attempt to kill the Japanese-Americans, merely to exclude and impoverish them. Just about all survived. And, as far as I can determine, the goals were strictly economic, and merely enabled by popular racist sentiment. E.g., it wasn't done in Hawaii, which had a much higher proportion of Japanese.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.