see url: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/24/tor_fbi_hacking_appeal/
See url: https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/02/24/playpen.pdf
Playpen pervert fails to convince appeals court
I just love the Subject Headline.
US Search warrants no longer need to be targetted at a particular person or
address. Although the search warrant was wrong in the first place, the
government acted in good faith. The legal rule has now been changed to cover
it.
Quote<<<It's a legal argument that has worked for some of the Playpen
arrestees. Congress has since changed the
rule<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/us_government_proposes_rule_41_change/>
– Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure – to allow US
crime-fighters to probe machines anywhere in the world, with a warrant. Judges
Joseph Greenaway Jr, Richard Nygaar, and Mike Fisher, sitting in third circuit
court of appeals, agreed this week that a magistrate should not have approved
the search warrant, and that the FBI had exceeded its authority, but
nonetheless decided that the government had acted in good faith.>>> End of quote
Quote<<<That decision kills off Werdene's attempts to throw out the
prosecution's evidence that he was a Playpen user.
The case did reveal some interesting details about the FBI's mysterious NIT. In
the past, the agency has actually dropped
cases<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/06/fbi_lets_people_off_to_keep_methods_secret/>
against suspected sharers of underage sex videos rather than reveal
details<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/23/fbi_rule_41/> of its Tor
privacy exploit. Agents for one foreign government, working with the FBI,
previously used a specially crafted
video<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/04/pedophile_snatched_on_dark_web/>
to snare dark-web pedos, yet it's not known
exactly<https://www.lawfareblog.com/end-nit> how the FBI's NIT works.>>>End of
quote
ATB
Dougie.
