<html> <p> <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160503/17463334339/doj-deploys-highly-questionable-legal-arguments-attempt-to-save-fbis-hacking-warrants.shtml">The FBI's use</a> of a Network Investigative Technique (NIT) to obtain info from the computers of visitors to a seized child porn site has run into all sorts of problems. <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160426/15240134286/yet-another-court-says-fbis-hacking-tool-child-porn-case-was-illegal-search.shtml">The biggest problem</a> in most of the cases is that the use of a single warrant issued in Virginia to perform searches of computers all over the nation violated the jurisdictional limits set down by Rule 41(b). Not coincidentally, the FBI is <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160621/17440334778/doj-insists-that-rule-41-change-is-not-important-nothing-to-see-here-move-annoying-privacy-activist-people.shtml">hoping the changes</a> to Rule 41 the DOJ submitted last year will be codified by the end of 2016, in large part because it removes the stipulation that limits searches to the area overseen by the magistrate judge signing the warrant. For defendant Edward Matish, the limits of Rule 41 don't apply. He resides in the jurisdiction where the warrant was signed. He had challenged the veracity of the data obtained by the NIT, pushing the theory that the FBI's unexamined NIT was insecure (data obtained from targets was sent back to the FBI <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160603/11581934617/fbi-sends-computer-information-collected-hacking-tools-unencrypted-form-over-open-internet.shtml">in unencrypted form</a>) and info could have been altered in transit. It's not much of a legal theory as any person performing these alterations would have had to know someone was performing long-distance acquisitions of identifying computer information and the IP addresses normally hidden by the use of Tor. But that questionable legal theory is nothing compared to those handed down in <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2897490/Matish-Order.pdf">Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr.'s denial</a> [pdf] of several motions by Matish. As the judge sees it, the FBI really didn't even need a warrant. Morgan Jr. says there's no expectation of privacy in an IP address, even if Tor is used to obscure it, which follows other judges' conclusions on the same matter. However, Morgan Jr. goes much further. Morgan Jr. hints at the Third Party Doctrine but refuses to consider the fact that this information was not obtained from third parties, but rather directly from the user's computer via the FBI's hacking tool. </p> <p><br></p> <p>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160624/05351534808/judge-says-fbi-can-hack-computers-without-warrant-because-computer-users-get-hacked-all-time.shtml</p> <p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/US-FBI-ShadedSeal.svg/2000px-US-FBI-ShadedSeal.svg.png" width="2000" height="2060"/></p> </html>
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It's the 'It's OK because everybody is doing it' justification. Sounds legit. /s
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> Judge Says FBI Can Hack Computers Without A Warrant Because Computer Users Get Hacked All The Time Guccifer should use this defense. Of course we all know that the laws have different interpretations for different people and he's still going to be convicted. Hillary should be behind bars, but the laws don't apply to her. Corporations/Banks get fines and no one goes to jail for violating laws that would get you and I 10-20 years in a cage. And yet the masses continue voting for a corrupt master who wants us all in a cage; be it behind bars, in your house watching TV or locked down in a distressing job all day just to survive.
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