LXer: FBI Gains New Hacking Powers
 

Published at LXer:

The FBI is now allowed to hack into computers anywhere in the world using only a single warrant, according to a new rule that was quietly implemented on Thursday.

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Personal comment...

Strange, but I do not recall granting them or anyone else such power over my information technology or communications.

I also do not recall having been asked for any such permission, or giving blanket consent in any way.

I wonder where this imaginary "power" came from, other than thin air?

Seems like a bit of a catch 22.
They're allowed to hack into your computer anywhere as part of a investigation.. but only if the computer is masking its location?

Yeah, you better read that again and pay closer attention to it. It states that:

Devices that investigators believe are part of a botnet or that are masking their location would be vulnerable to the new single-warrant intrusions.

So if they believe or think that your system is part of a botnet they are allowed to hack into it.

what do the need to prove they believe your system is part of a botnet? Guess we will find this out when they start hacking into computers just because and it will happen. Governments don't care about it's people they care about maintaining their power.

Think yourselves lucky -- where I live everything I do on the internet must be recorded by my ISP and kept for at least a year becauase, according to our prime minister, I, and every other person in this country, am a terrorist peadophile.
I'd try to suggest that St Theresa's not correct in her understanding but this may well have me sent to the gulag.