Codename Section
12-07-2013, 04:20 PM
Awesome stuff. Thanks Dems and Reps!
http://gizmodo.com/fbi-can-secretly-activate-laptop-cameras-without-the-in-1478371370
Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html) that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer's camera "without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording" for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in?
Marcus Thomas, the former assistant director of the FBI's Operational Technology Division, told the Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html) that that sort of creepy spy laptop recording is "mainly" used in terrorism cases or the "most serious" of criminal investigations. That doesn't really make it less crazy (or any better) since the very idea of the FBI being able to watch you through your computer is absolutely disturbing.
The whole Post piece (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html) about the FBI's search for a bomb threat suspect is worth reading. It shows how far the FBI will go with its use of malware to spy on people and reveals the occasional brain dead mistakes the FBI makes to screw themselves over (like a typo of an e-mail address that the FBI wanted to keep tabs on). Good to know these completely competent folks are watching over us by any means necessary. [Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html)]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
“You can’t just go on a fishing expedition,” said Laura K. Donohue, a Georgetown University law professor who reviewed three recent court rulings on FBI surveillance software, including one involving Mo (http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/business/fbi-files-colorado-search-warrant-request/641/). “There needs to be a nexus between the crime being alleged and the material to be seized. What they are doing here, though, is collecting everything.”The FBI and Justice Department declined to comment on the case or the surveillance techniques used in pursuit of Mo.
But court documents related to the investigation, created when the FBI requested a search warrant before sending the surveillance software across the Internet to Mo, have offered a rare window into the bureau’s tools for tracking suspects through an online landscape replete with places to hide.
If you read they use malware to get into your system and because of the Patriot Act they've gone on a few fishing expeditions because people accidentally typed in a "watched" website.
This is the shit that I hate about today. Yeh,yeh, spare me the old "Government's always spied on us" crap. They didn't have sat technology, web tech, and a million other types of ways to completely invade your privacy and turn us all into "guilty people". Considering we all unknowingly engage in felonies every day (I was given the book Three Felonies a Day--eye opening) we're all fucked.
http://gizmodo.com/fbi-can-secretly-activate-laptop-cameras-without-the-in-1478371370
Scary. Insane. Ridiculous. Invasive. Wrong. The Washington Post reports (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html) that the FBI has had the ability to secretly activate a computer's camera "without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording" for years now. What in the hell is going on? What kind of world do we live in?
Marcus Thomas, the former assistant director of the FBI's Operational Technology Division, told the Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html) that that sort of creepy spy laptop recording is "mainly" used in terrorism cases or the "most serious" of criminal investigations. That doesn't really make it less crazy (or any better) since the very idea of the FBI being able to watch you through your computer is absolutely disturbing.
The whole Post piece (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html) about the FBI's search for a bomb threat suspect is worth reading. It shows how far the FBI will go with its use of malware to spy on people and reveals the occasional brain dead mistakes the FBI makes to screw themselves over (like a typo of an e-mail address that the FBI wanted to keep tabs on). Good to know these completely competent folks are watching over us by any means necessary. [Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html)]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06/352ba174-5397-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
“You can’t just go on a fishing expedition,” said Laura K. Donohue, a Georgetown University law professor who reviewed three recent court rulings on FBI surveillance software, including one involving Mo (http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/business/fbi-files-colorado-search-warrant-request/641/). “There needs to be a nexus between the crime being alleged and the material to be seized. What they are doing here, though, is collecting everything.”The FBI and Justice Department declined to comment on the case or the surveillance techniques used in pursuit of Mo.
But court documents related to the investigation, created when the FBI requested a search warrant before sending the surveillance software across the Internet to Mo, have offered a rare window into the bureau’s tools for tracking suspects through an online landscape replete with places to hide.
If you read they use malware to get into your system and because of the Patriot Act they've gone on a few fishing expeditions because people accidentally typed in a "watched" website.
This is the shit that I hate about today. Yeh,yeh, spare me the old "Government's always spied on us" crap. They didn't have sat technology, web tech, and a million other types of ways to completely invade your privacy and turn us all into "guilty people". Considering we all unknowingly engage in felonies every day (I was given the book Three Felonies a Day--eye opening) we're all fucked.