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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 Saturday July 02 2016, @08:04AM
Any country which conducts mass surveillance on the populace (which France and the US do), censor in the name of security, exploit terrorist attacks by giving the government unjust powers in the name of security, etc. cannot be called free. So France is an authoritarian shithole, along with plenty of other countries.