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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: 2) by Common Joe on Monday July 04 2016, @04:10AM
I read this to mean that the judge doesn't expect any privacy on his personal computer and he thinks it's ok that hackers going after it is ok.
To be clear: I do not encourage anyone to do this. I'm merely repeating what the judge said in a more specific way.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Monday July 04 2016, @05:22AM
That's how I read it. Let would be nice for the local cops to hack away at his computer and find his collection of nasty shit.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.