The ends aren’t always supposed to justify the means. And a federal agency that already raised the hackles of defense lawyers around the nation during a CSAM investigation probably shouldn…
  • corvi@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is a poorly written article. The FBI did not access computers randomly looking for the botnet like it claims, they used the botnet infrastructure to uninstall itself.

    There are still extremely valid privacy concerns here, especially considering potential applications of plain view laws, but it should still be presented factually.