https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer
>In a dangerously flawed decision unsealed today, a federal district court in Virginia ruled that a criminal defendant has no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in his personal computer, located inside his home. According to the court, the federal government does not need a warrant to hack into an individual's computer.
>This decision is the latest in, and perhaps the culmination of, a series of troubling decisions in prosecutions stemming from the FBI’s investigation of Playpen—a Tor hidden services site hosting child pornography. The FBI seized the server hosting the site in 2014, but continued to operate the site and serve malware to thousands of visitors that logged into the site. The malware located certain identifying information (e.g., MAC address, operating system, the computer’s “Host name”; etc) on the attacked computer and sent that information back to the FBI. There are hundreds of prosecutions, pending across the country, stemming from this investigation.
>Courts overseeing these cases have struggled to apply traditional rules of criminal procedure and constitutional law to the technology at issue.
>>55254329
yall niggas be like this is something new
>>55254329
They had warrants, and your IP is not a private document.
What's next?
>The federal government does not need a warrant to break into a suspect's home to install surveillance equipment
Land of the free.
>>55254434
Wut? What does ip have to do with personal files and ownership? As a coder I will never give the feds the key to steal then sell my livelihood.
>>55254329
This is scary, much more reason to use free software and tools that protect you like GPG, DNSCrypt, Veracrypt, OpenSSL and more. We should all switch to free software, it is the only thing protecting us from governments
>>55254329
>This decision
>The FBI doesn't have to reveal it's techniques.
>This nation full of Hillary/Trump/Sanders supporters
>Everything lately
Is it any wonder suicide rates have risen dramatically?
You missed:
> But it's also incorrect as a matter of law, and we expect there is little chance it would hold up on appeal. (It also was not the central component of the judge's decision, which also diminishes the likelihood that it will become reliable precedent.)
>>55254510
Do you have proof that suicide rates have risen?
>>55254567
It's a well documented fact. Google will reveal the details.
>>55254567
Up 24% in the last 15 years in the US. Up 60% globally.
>>55254476
but this only applies to criminal defendants not suspects, get your head out of your rectal cavity and take your criminal apologist attitude to the garbage where it belongs, paranoid fuck.
>pedos
>fucking things up for everybody
>being the perfect hot mess nobody wants to defend
>>55254490
>As a coder
>coder
>>55255648
"Coder" and "coding" were used since the 1940s.
>>55254434
>They had warrants, and your IP is not a private document.
It specifically said they don't have warrants.
>According to the court, the federal government does not need a warrant to hack into an individual's computer.
So they probably had warrants to go after the server, but they did not have warrants to infect all of the visitors with malware. Unless I'm misreading something.
The fourth amendment seems pretty much dead to me. Your car gets searched, all the cop has to do is claim he smelled something. Your email and online conversations are pillaged and logged. Our cities and towns are covered with cameras that are performing warrantless surveillance 24/7. Congress and the courts seem intent on destroying the Bill of Rights. We have a fourth amendment in name only pretty much.
Seems to me the world has largely gone to trash, culturally, economically, politically, pretty much in every regard.
