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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @04:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @04:58AM (#419731)

    In China, they haven't forgotten such atrocities as the rape of Nanking. The atrocities committed by the communist government get a lot less lip service, primarily because the communists are still officially in charge.

    I knew it! Trump groped Ms. Nanking, and then raped her. So why does not the Communist party own up to this? What are they trying to hide? And what does Runaway not know? (Skip that last question, we do not want to be downloading infinite sets onto SoylentNews!)