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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 02 2016, @04:03PM
... unless your oak door is on a house in certain States, such as Oklahoma and apparently Illinois.
http://www.disclosurenewsonline.com/2010/08/30/heres-a-slippery-slope-if-ever-there-was-one/ [disclosurenewsonline.com]
I'm not supporting the criminal police state by pointing this out, rather showing that if you try to actually secure your home that some cops will try to throw you in a cage for that nowadays, along with everything else. this is all very similar to "speeding", in which case cops have been told by "judges" that they can use the threat of lethal force to arrest (pull over, detain, stop) and search people and their possessions for going even 1mph over the speed limit, 5mph under the speed limit (e.g. likely EXACTLY the speed limit as the in-car speedometer was likely to have read), and if not now then soon for going exactly and precisely the speed limit as it is "all suspicious".
At the core of all this is: if I can't kidnap a person and throw them in a cage for merely driving at any arbitrary speed of my choosing, neither can I delegate that authority to anyone else. Government is just another word for a criminal gang.