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FBI Illegally Exceeded Scope of Warrant Against TorMail Users

posted by takyon on Wednesday November 09 2016, @01:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the bloodhound-loose dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/unsealed-court-docs-show-fbi-used-malware-like-a-grenade

In 2013, the FBI received permission to hack over 300 specific users of dark web email service TorMail. But now, after the warrants and their applications have finally been unsealed, experts say the agency illegally went further, and hacked perfectly legitimate users of the privacy-focused service. [...] "What remains unclear is if the court was ever told that the FBI had exceeded the scope of the warrant, or whether the FBI agents who hacked innocent users were ever punished,"

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:18PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday November 09 2016, @02:18PM (#424614) Journal

    I hated Comey before it was cool. There's no need for the FBI to gain a leg up on encrypted systems, or stockpile exploits.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:08PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:08PM (#424651) Journal

    I liked Comey when he braced his boss, Ashcroft, against Darth Cheney. His recent actions have undone all that.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by art guerrilla on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:51PM

      by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:51PM (#424730)

      yeah, me too, kinda...
      it did make me suspicious that an insider wss apparently gping rogue, but i wonder that wasnt more some internecine warfare where he accidently did the right thing for some other purpose than to do us hoi polloi a solid...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @05:38PM (#424754)

      Except that he signed off on the rest of the unconstitutional surveillance programs; he only had a problem with one.