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

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, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:15PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:15PM (#424655) Journal

    We've just handed over the levers of turnkey totalitarianism to someone that campaigned on a totalitarian platform.

    And now we have an easy rebuttal to any proposal to increase the power of government. Do you want Trump to get it? And if that doesn't work, do you want Obama to get it? A window of opportunity has come to roll back the crap that has been done over the past few decades. Too many people seem to forget that their side never stays in power forever.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:37PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:37PM (#424722) Journal

    Exactly. I railed against the Patriot Act when Bush & Cheney were pushing it. I railed against it when Obama used it. I was quite afraid of Hillary using it to suppress dissent in America. That potential also exists with Trump, it's true, which is why I would really like to see the police state surveillance unwound.

    I don't think that will happen. At least, I don't think it will happen unless paid for with patriots' blood.

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    Washington DC delenda est.