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posted by martyb on Saturday July 02 2016, @06:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the open-season dept.

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.

http://www.eweek.com/security/home-computers-connected-to-the-internet-arent-private-court-rules.html


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 02 2016, @10:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 02 2016, @10:45AM (#368853)
    I'm sure lots of us have old computers lying around that aren't plugged in.

    Maybe with enough digging and "interpretation of the law" they might be able to find stuff to "hang" us with.

    FWIW in my fucked-up country "normal" porn is illegal, so probably even instagram /imgur photos in caches would be enough to send me down.

    In your country maybe baby/child photos would be enough (if you're unlucky even fully clothed ones might be considered child porn).