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The Justice Department had to get court approval to access private servers and remove malicious software. But, why does the FBI have to do this? Why does a federal agency have to remove a software virus from private servers? There are private companies that can do this.
The Justice Department had to get court approval to access private servers and remove malicious software. But, why does the FBI have to do this? Why does a federal agency have to remove a software virus from private servers? There are private companies that can do this.
? A private company can't obtain a warrant for access to my hardware.
So, have you got it yet. In the interests of state security, security on your computer has been so diluted that anyone and his dog can get access to your so-called confidential records.
Sweet, since we now have the precedence that the FBI can invade your machine without permission whenever they want for national security reasons I can't wait the glorious future we have before us. Now the FBI can access your machine and start modifying things because you are expressing displeasure at your public officials which is a sign of "terrorist behavior", oops you're using your blog to say things the governmen…
do you have an alternative? would you feel better if it wasn't FBI? or if these remained unfixed?
"The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable computers across the United States." So, have you got it yet. In the interests of state security, security on your computer has been so diluted that anyone and his dog can get access to your so-called confidential records.
I assume that a more extreme step would be to notify the ISPs that serve specific IPs to cut them off. But that would break a lot of other things.
Was there a private individual a few years ago who was doing a similar thing? Cleaning up backdoored servers?
Do you mean Max Butler, who was given jail-time after deciding to not be an undercover FBI informant FBI anymore?
The Justice Department had to get court approval to access private servers and remove malicious software. But, why does the FBI have to do this? Why does a federal agency have to remove a software virus from private servers? There are private companies that can do this.
? A private company can't obtain a warrant for access to my hardware.
The theory goes, that guy is breaking the law, and it's hurting my business, but since it's low priority for the government, I'm going to start a private enforcement action. Both very ingenuous and scary at the same time.
Sweet, since we now have the precedence that the FBI can invade your machine without permission whenever they want for national security reasons I can't wait the glorious future we have before us. Now the FBI can access your machine and start modifying things because you are expressing displeasure at your public officials which is a sign of "terrorist behavior", oops you're using your blog to say things the governmen…
Look, in The Netherlands, the largest grocery chain ( AH, Albert Heijn, Ahold ) has empty cheese shelves because their cheese-logistics-company got hacked through this vulnerability. The Dutch, without cheese. Do you see the severity of the problem now? Jeez.
The search order is set-up by a redacted URL, so we can't confirm if the servers are actually in USA. Maybe a few of these are a little bit out of FBI jurisdiction. Nobody will be allowed to check their work.
The court order begins the path of setting a legal precedent for the next time a system is determined to need "FBI patching."
Sweet, since we now have the precedence that the FBI can invade your machine without permission whenever they want for national security reasons I can't wait the glorious future we have before us. Now the FBI can access your machine and start modifying things because you are expressing displeasure at your public officials which is a sign of "terrorist behavior", oops you're using your blog to say things the governmen…
Look, in The Netherlands, the largest grocery chain ( AH, Albert Heijn, Ahold ) has empty cheese shelves because their cheese-logistics-company got hacked through this vulnerability. The Dutch, without cheese. Do you see the severity of the problem now? Jeez.
Don't you worry about us, there is not and will never be a cheese shortage!