This story stinks. I cannot understand why anyone who ends up in the ‘Special Servers’ is not send am automatic alert, for those who are completely offline in the critical period there is a different problem.
Because all the FBI know about these people is their IP address. In order to send them something, they would need a subpoena to get the subscriber name and address, which would have to be requested from the miriad ISP providers no doubt are involved.
Actually it would really be worrying if we got an e-mail or a letter from them...
Would you respond to it? Anyway, if the FBI wanted to take over everybody's computer, would they have them unknowingly download spyware when they use this self check? If it ever came out that the FBI actually was using it to spy on everybody's internet use , they would be on the hook for it. Don't they have to have a warrant to do that too? Plus, what happens when people get new computers? There's no spyware on the new computer.