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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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FBI Illegally Exceeded Scope of Warrant Against TorMail Users
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QOTD:
The forest may be quiet, but that doesn't mean
the snakes have gone away.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:37PM
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.
Washington DC delenda est.