| Bladewire |
11-30-2016 01:32 PM |
At Midnight Tonight The FBI Will Have The Power To Hack Millions Of Computers
Looks like we have our own UK IP Act passing at midnight tonight and basically no media covered it until today.
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Starting Thursday, a Department of Justice official will be able to go to a single judge, assert that a computer crime may involve millions of networked devices, and get a warrant that lets the FBI hack all of those devices.
According to three senators who tried to put the brakes on that new authority Wednesday so Congress could at least discuss it, there are no concrete assurances from law enforcement officials that privacy won?t be violated or that devices won?t be damaged. Nor was there any explanation of how authorities will hack Americans? wired equipment.
?At midnight tonight, this Senate will make one of the biggest mistakes in surveillance policy in years and years,? said Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who tried with Sens. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) to offer three measures to delay or rein in the new FBI powers. ?Without a single congressional hearing, without a shred of meaningful public input, without any opportunity for senators to ask their questions in a public forum, one judge with one warrant would be able to authorize the hacking of thousands, possibly
millions of devices, cell phones and tablets.?
In fact, very few Americans have any idea that the scope of online search warrants is about to get much broader. The push for the expansion stems from a case in Texas in which investigators were denied a warrant because they could not show that the computer they wanted to hack was in the federal district where the warrant was sought.
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