US Govt Tweaks Rules To Let Cops, Feds Hack Computers Anywhere, Anytime

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Quote : " On Thursday, the US Supreme Court approved a change to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. It sounds innocuous, but the effects will be felt around the world. Under today's rules, US cops and FBI agents need to know where a computer is before they can get a warrant to directly hack the machine – because they have to ensure the judge and court they approach for the warrant has jurisdiction over the matter. In other words, a judge usually can't issue a search warrant against someone or something outside her district. Under the proposed rule change this geographical information won't be needed, and a single search warrant can be used to authorize American crimefighters to infiltrate any PC, Mac or other device anywhere in the world. In addition, the rule change will also allow the FBI and others to hack into victims' computers that have already been broken into by cyber-criminals. This is being billed as a measure to help track down the operators of botnets.

The US Department of Justice has been proposing the rule change for three years, saying it's just a procedural matter that doesn't mean the police get any extra powers. Not surprisingly, civil libertarians, technology companies, and some politicians disagree.
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Big Brother is going strong. Interestingly, the US has a much larger prison population than China.

How much hacking is really required? They likely have backdoors into Windows, Apple and Chrome OS and plenty of zero days. Put on a keylogger, and even if you encrypted the entire HD, lol.
 
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