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Date: 2014-03-28 6:44:42
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/feds-want-an-expanded-ability-to-hack-criminal-suspects-computers/
By Cyrus Farivar
Ars Technica
March 27, 2014
The United States Department of Justice wants to broaden its ability to
hack criminal suspects' computers according to a new legal proposal that
was first published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
If passed as currently drafted, federal authorities would gain an expanded
ability to conduct "remote access" under a warrant against a target
computer whose location is unknown or outside of a given judicial
district. It would also apply in cases where that computer is part of a
larger network of computers spread across multiple judicial districts. In
the United States, federal warrants are issued by judges who serve one of
the 94 federal judicial districts and are typically only valid for that
particular jurisdiction.
The 402-page document entitled "Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules" is
scheduled to be discussed at an upcoming Department of Justice (DOJ)
meeting next month in New Orleans.
Federal agents have been known to use such tactics in past and ongoing
cases: a Colorado federal magistrate judge approved sending malware to a
suspect's known e-mail address in 2012. But similar techniques have been
rejected by other judges on Fourth Amendment grounds. If this rule
revision were to be approved, it would standardize and expand federal
agents' ability to surveil a suspect and to exfiltrate data from a target
computer regardless of where it is.
[...]
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