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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.
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.
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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.
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