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A US judge overseeing an FBI "Playpen case" has told agents to reveal whether or not their investigative hacking was approved by the White House.
The case is one of several the Feds are pursuing against more than 100 alleged users of the child sex abuse material exchange network called the Playpen. The prosecutions have become test grounds over investigators' use of hacking tools to unmask Tor users – Playpen was hidden in the Tor network and agents injected tracking software into Playpen visitors' browsers to identify users.
In June, a judge hearing one of the Playpen cases in Virginia ruled that the FBI can hack any computer in any country, if it wants.
During its investigation, the FBI compromised Playpen's Tor-protected distribution servers, leaving them in operation to keep users visiting the service. The Feds then hacked the targets' computers to identify the owners.
It's not a crime if the President orders it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 27 2016, @04:04PM
The Holocaust would have been glossed over, if not forgotten by all but the Jews.
Very true. Just look at things like the Firebombing of Dresden, or the internment of Japanese Americans by the US government (and things like the Trail of Tears). None of them are denied and people who know such things know of them... but none of them are really emphasized and the majority of the population only has passing familiarity with them.
Or they could handle it like the Great Leap Forward and Tiananmen Square in China, which I think are more of an open secret.
There are lots of models of how a nation buries a dark chapter of history. It's easy to imagine a victorious Nazi government being held up as a shining example of what a country can be (and how to break out of the spiral of economic stagnation and oppression).
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday October 27 2016, @11:01PM
The internment of the Japanese was atrocious, but not up to the level of the Nazis or the Trail of Tears. There was no particular attempt to kill the Japanese-Americans, merely to exclude and impoverish them. Just about all survived. And, as far as I can determine, the goals were strictly economic, and merely enabled by popular racist sentiment. E.g., it wasn't done in Hawaii, which had a much higher proportion of Japanese.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.