Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/06/24/fbi-doesnt-need-warrant-hack/
A senior US district judge has decided that the FBI didn't need a warrant to capture a defendant's IP address or to extract additional info from his computer.
The case in question is that of Edward Matish, III, who stands accused of access with intent to view child pornography and receipt of child pornography.
He is one of a number of suspects who's IP address was identified with the help of a "network investigative technique" (NIT) used by the FBI after they seized control of Playpen, a dark net website dedicated to child porn distribution.
The NIT also instructed Matish's and other suspects' computers to send information about the OS running on it, its name, its MAC address, and its active operating system username to the server controlled by the FBI.
"The Court finds that Defendant possessed no reasonable expectation of privacy in his computer's IP address, so the Government's acquisition of the IP address did not represent a prohibited Fourth Amendment search," Judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr., ruled.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 26 2016, @08:01AM
hacking anyone's computer or computer based device is now legal
thank you fbi for opening the gate