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Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone #1221739 2016-09-16 1:26 PM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 43,951 Likes: 6 the right the G-man OP Officially "too old for this shit" 15000+ posts
OP the G-man Officially "too old for this shit" 15000+ posts Joined: May 2003 Posts: 43,951 Likes: 6 the right	The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone The Justice Department is planning a vast expansion of government hacking. Under a new set of rules, the FBI would have the authority to secretly use malware to hack into thousands or hundreds of thousands of computers that belong to innocent third parties and even crime victims. The unintended consequences could be staggering. The new plan to drastically expand the government’s hacking and surveillance authorities is known formally as amendments to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the proposal would allow the government to hack a million computers or more with a single warrant. If Congress doesn’t pass legislation blocking this proposal, the new rules go into effect on December 1. With just six work weeks remaining on the Senate schedule and a long Congressional to-do list, time is running out. The government says it needs this power to investigate a network of devices infected with malware and controlled by a criminal—what’s known as a “botnet.” But the Justice Department has given the public far too little information about its hacking tools and how it plans to use them. And the amendments to Rule 41 are woefully short on protections for the security of hospitals, life-saving computer systems, or the phones and electronic devices of innocent Americans. Without rigorous and periodic evaluation of hacking software by independent experts, it would be nothing short of reckless to allow this massive expansion of government hacking. If malware crashes your personal computer or phone, it can mean a loss of photos, documents and records—a major inconvenience. But if a hospital’s computer system or other critical infrastructure crashes, it puts lives at risk. Surgical directives are lost. Medical histories are inaccessible. Patients can wait hours for care. If critical information isn’t available to doctors, people could die. Without new safeguards on the government’s hacking authority, the FBI could very well be responsible for this kind of tragedy in the future. No one believes the government is setting out to damage victims’ computers. But history shows just how hard it is to get hacking tools right.

Re: Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone the G-man #1222526 2016-11-28 2:18 AM
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30,833 Likes: 7 Fucktard Valley, CA Pariah The conscience of the rkmbs! 15000+ posts
Pariah The conscience of the rkmbs! 15000+ posts Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30,833 Likes: 7 Fucktard Valley, CA	Apparently, an aspect of this amendment is that anyone using a VPN is authorized to be targeted and hacked by the FBI.....I'm gonna have to update my infosec, hardsec, AND opsec to account for this, because there's no fucking way I'm gonna browse without a VPN. I might even start using a VPN-Tor mockup to protect myself. Tor is iffy though since the NSA now controls all the entry nodes.

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