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The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone
WIRED magazine ^ | 09.14.16 7:00 AM | RON WYDEN, MATT BLAZE AND SUSAN LANDAU

Posted on 09/16/2016 7:29:23 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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.

The government says it needs this power to investigate ... 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: computers; feds; hacking; legally
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

They’ve been doing it for years.

Isn’t that right, dude behind my screen?


21 posted on 09/16/2016 8:27:26 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Time to buy a typewriter.


22 posted on 09/16/2016 8:34:36 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

This is why I have more than one computer that is never connected to the Internet. If it doesn’t need to be online, why risk it?


23 posted on 09/16/2016 8:50:14 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: circlecity
Time for people to start learning about strong encryption.

Do some research on Adiabatic Quantum Computers.

24 posted on 09/16/2016 8:51:49 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

IF she wins at all.

Trump in a landslide win.


25 posted on 09/16/2016 9:18:44 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Disambiguator

Use a anti-virus/malware software program.


26 posted on 09/16/2016 9:19:48 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

My greatest fear is not the government being able to decode my encrypted messages (I haven’t yet had a reason to send one), but that the government could detect that I sent an encrypted message and demand that I decrypt it for them.

It’s simple to send a totally undecryptable message. You use a huge key. You xor the message being sent with the key. You previously have given that key to the recipient by physical means such as giving the recipient a flash drive containing it. The recipient simply xor’s the received encrypted message with the key.


27 posted on 09/16/2016 9:38:34 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Biggirl

That’s not the issue. The issue is being connected to the big bad world when it’s not necessary.

I have a separate machine for web and email use, the rest stays behind a “firewall” that consists of non-connectivity. A high-resistance air connection, if you will.


28 posted on 09/16/2016 9:48:26 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

That old dusty paper thing those dead white guys wrote almost a quarter millennia ago is meaningless.


29 posted on 09/16/2016 9:50:19 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

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The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone

I guess The Fourth Amendment will soon be as dead as The Tenth Amendment.
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Soon? It’s been dead for 100yrs+ (~when the 16th was ‘passed’)....along w/ the presumption of innocence.


30 posted on 09/16/2016 9:55:33 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Disambiguator

That is where protection software comes in.


31 posted on 09/16/2016 9:55:46 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

The fiends are after all of it; the entire US Constitution!


32 posted on 09/16/2016 10:41:32 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Quickgun
One day patriots may have to respond to government-style hacking with Rwandan-style hacking....

That should be someone's tag line.

33 posted on 09/16/2016 11:22:44 AM PDT by Squeako (None of them can be trusted. Be ready and act accordingly.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“I thought they already were.”

They alreasy are ... just not’legally’


34 posted on 09/16/2016 11:22:56 AM PDT by khelus
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To: khelus

alreasy = already


35 posted on 09/16/2016 11:23:39 AM PDT by khelus
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To: Gaffer

You are so right.

In addition, we all know how well the government protects the information it collects. /s


36 posted on 09/16/2016 11:50:35 AM PDT by generally
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