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> By deleting the web shells, FBI personnel will prevent malicious cyber actors from using the web shells to access the servers and install additional malware on them If the FBi is in your computer you have already lost. Your box is as good as dead and you might aswell do a full factory reset or it that's too bothersome, buy a new box. Sometimes buying a whole new box is cheaper than cleaning up malware using special…
This is probably a net positive for national security... but I still don't like it. I don't want the FBI doing anything to my computer without my permission.
What are you suggesting that by setting this precedent the US Government would use it to illegally and unconstitutionally harm people who are politically unpopular. I do not think this would happen the US government is good the US government is right they protect you and keep you safe from evil terrorists who would try to hurt you. Please do not think about this too much, please go consume your next television show a…
Was there a private individual a few years ago who was doing a similar thing? Cleaning up backdoored servers?
> 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? https://www.securityfocus.com/news/203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Butler
> Butler is currently incarcerated at FCI Victorville Medium 2 in California, he expected to be released April 14, 2021.
Though it sounds like the sort of things he did involved a lot of carding and other kinda severely shitty behaviour.
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…
Is it really that bad and different than what they do in the physical world? If someone breaks into your home and they are still inside when the police show up, they won't just give you a call and tell you someone is inside your home. They will go in there and get the criminal out of your home. The threat actors are actively stealing information and are inside the networks of many companies, some with the expertise t…
If they come in the house uninvited then all they achieve is make me lose trust in them. I'll just start wondering how long until they abuse this and do it whenever it suits them, not me, if they're not doing it already.
> By deleting the web shells, FBI personnel will prevent malicious cyber actors from using the web shells to access the servers and install additional malware on them If the FBi is in your computer you have already lost. Your box is as good as dead and you might aswell do a full factory reset or it that's too bothersome, buy a new box. Sometimes buying a whole new box is cheaper than cleaning up malware using special…
> By deleting the web shells, FBI personnel will prevent malicious cyber actors from using the web shells to access the servers and install additional malware on them If the FBi is in your computer you have already lost. Your box is as good as dead and you might aswell do a full factory reset or it that's too bothersome, buy a new box. Sometimes buying a whole new box is cheaper than cleaning up malware using special…
They're using the vulnerability in question to go in and eliminate that vulnerability, locking themselves out. It's like a cop seeing a wide open front door, and going into the threshold in order to reach the door handle so he can pull it closed. Did he go into the house? Yes. Because it was open, and only in order to close it.
Besides, your metaphor doesn't work since cops aren't allowed to just enter a premise due to it being unlocked or open. That doesn't fall under any of the reasons to enter a premise without warrant. Leaving a door unlocked or open is not a crime that gives them free pass.
I really have a hard time understanding people's logic on here sometimes. Apparently the entire US government is systemically racist and evil but these same people want to give more power to this government? Which is it?
Was there a private individual a few years ago who was doing a similar thing? Cleaning up backdoored servers?
> 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? https://www.securityfocus.com/news/203