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A federal judge for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled that the user of any computer that connects to the Internet should not have an expectation of privacy because computer security is ineffectual at stopping hackers.
"Hacking is much more prevalent now than it was even nine years ago, and the rise of computer hacking via the Internet has changed the public's reasonable expectations of privacy," the judge wrote. "Now, it seems unreasonable to think that a computer connected to the Web is immune from invasion. Indeed, the opposite holds true: In today's digital world, it appears to be a virtual certainty that computers accessing the Internet can—and eventually will—be hacked."
The judge argued that the FBI did not even need the original warrant to use the NIT [Network Investigative technique/Toolkit] against visitors to PlayPen, a hidden service on the Tor network that acted as a hub for child exploitation.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Saturday July 02 2016, @08:16AM
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." -- M.L.K.
Of course it was to fight child abuse so it's fine.... er, does the court ruling specifically restrict this to abuse or terrorism?
In defense of the ruling, however, it states the obvious if you consider most people still run proprietary software, that your internet hub is rarely kept secure, and that the motherboard is full of DRM/remote control stuff. In other words, the FBI is allowed to do what all the software corporations, hardware makers, and assorted hackers do anyway.
Also look at the bright side, nobody is likely to hate USians for their freedom anymore.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 02 2016, @08:26AM
Godwin'd by Martin Luther King? Right on, brother.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 02 2016, @11:27AM
Also look at the bright side, nobody is likely to hate USians for their freedom anymore.
Eh, we never did. We hate you (well, not you, your government) for your economic bullying, bombings, indiscriminate killings of civilians, constant wars you rarely bother to declare, and overall ignoring of human rights and international laws.
It's just that you started getting some of it splashed onto you, and it's a different beast when a government pulls that shit on their own people. After all, they never swore to serve and protect us, but doing that stuff to you is a really low blow. For that, you have my sympathy. (And to be clear, I'm not being sarcastic!)