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A story from a few days ago:
A controversial proposed judicial rule change allowing judges to issue warrants to conduct "remote access" against a target computer regardless of its location has been approved by a United States Courts committee, according to the Department of Justice.
Federal agents have been known to use such tactics in past and ongoing cases: a Colorado federal magistrate judge approved sending malware to a suspect's known e-mail address in 2012. But similar techniques have been rejected by other judges on Fourth Amendment grounds. If this rule revision were to be approved, it would standardize and expand federal agents' ability to surveil a suspect and to exfiltrate data from a target computer regardless of where it is. (Both the United States Army and the Drug Enforcement Administration are known to have purchased such exploits, most likely zero-days.)
This should become even more significant as the Internet of Things moves forward.
Original Submission
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2015, @08:05PM
when adam was a little boy, his parents noticed that he was extraordinarily good at planting potatoes.
they send him to agricultural school and the teacher were astonished at how good he was at planting any kind of plant.
also they noticed that he was not very fond of the government and how it mandated to plant stuff.
when reaching a certain age, adam noticed that all his computer gear was malfunctioning and that this was bad because he was replying on a daily basis to reader of his blog on how to plant potatoes the better "non-government" way.
thus adam never amounted to anything and alot of people went to bed hungry because of missing potatoes and when adam finally died, the government donated a bed of roses, planted the government way on his grave.