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FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites to Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers)

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday June 23 2020, @05:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the using-all-available-resources dept.

chromas writes:

So Much For Going Dark: FBI Using Social Media, E-Commerce Sites To Track Down Suspects (Including Non-Lawbreakers):

You know the drill, right? The FBI keeps insisting that it has a "going dark" problem due to encryption making it impossible to access key evidence of supposedly criminal behavior, in theory allowing crime to happen without recourse. The problem, though, is that nearly every single bit of this claim is false. It's kind of stunning.

  • It appears that, in practice, the FBI almost never runs into encryption.
  • In the rare cases where it has (and we don't know how many because since the FBI admitted it over exaggerated how many "locked" devices it had, and then has since refused to provide an updated count), there do appear to be ways to get into those devices anyway.
  • But the key issue, by far, is that the opposite of going dark is happening. Thanks to our increasingly electronic lives, the government actually has way more access to information than ever before.

Two recent articles highlight this in practice, with regards to the FBI trying to track down the rare cases of criminal activity happening around some of the protests.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday June 23 2020, @05:55AM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday June 23 2020, @05:55AM (#1011446) Homepage

    The FBI at this point are all probably all Marxist Chicoms and/or gorging themselves on Cartel and Soros dollars. Just like the other neo-Bolsheviks, they'll blame Black Anti-Semitism on the "emerging threat of White Supremacy" and continue their seditious coup against our lawfully-elected president. Then they'll go home and cross-dress in front of their J. Edgar Hoover posters.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @03:01PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @03:01PM (#1011585)

    Why do they have to be leftist to be evil? The FBI is fully capable of being a neo-fascist cult bent on taking away everyone's civil liberties without "Cartel and Soros dollars".

    They've been assassinating Americans for decades. Their war on black communities has only ever been restricted by their ability to hide it from the rest of us. Then they do one bad thing to your guy and suddenly they're on the side of all those Marxists they've been murdering? Please.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 23 2020, @04:32PM (#1011618)

      It's because they've obviously been taken over by Bolsheviks if you've been paying attention over the last couple of decades. Shooting Vickie Weaver in the head while she held her baby on her own porch. Some cowardly piece of shit shooting the family dog in front of the 10 yr old son then spraying him in the back with an mp5 as he ran away. Killing everyone at waco to try and prove who's boss. Thank $skyDaddy for Timothy McVeigh! You pieces of shit don't get to kill American kids for free.

    • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Tuesday June 23 2020, @09:38PM

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 23 2020, @09:38PM (#1011728) Journal

      suddenly

      EF not liking FBI behavior or [insert most any other group here] behavior is pretty much the opposite of new.
       
      Pondering, maybe he just doesn't like any arbitrary clumping of humanity?

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