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 ...
They’ve been doing it for years.
Isn’t that right, dude behind my screen?
Time to buy a typewriter.
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?
Do some research on Adiabatic Quantum Computers.
IF she wins at all.
Trump in a landslide win.
Use a anti-virus/malware software program.
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.
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.
That old dusty paper thing those dead white guys wrote almost a quarter millennia ago is meaningless.
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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.
That is where protection software comes in.
The fiends are after all of it; the entire US Constitution!
That should be someone's tag line.
“I thought they already were.”
They alreasy are ... just not’legally’
alreasy = already
You are so right.
In addition, we all know how well the government protects the information it collects. /s
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