On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:56:38 -0600 Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
On 10/25/2016 09:46 PM, juan wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:18:07 -0600 Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
| Senior U.S. District Judge Leon Jordan ruled that the Federal | Bureau of Investigation violated both the US Constitution and | federal rules of criminal procedure when they hacked nearly | 1,300 users who accessed the PlayPen child porn site.
https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/10/26/knoxville-federal-judge-rules-fbi-play...
"Jordan allows the government to use the evidence gathered by the FBI"
Plus, if the fbi has any sort of 'problems' they simply have to go to a different court of 'justice' which will finally 'agree' with them.
Yes, it's a narrow victory. But still, the FBI couldn't just shop for an agreeable judge. If they want a national investigation, his ruling means that they'd need a warrant from a federal judge. Which, I'm guessing, is harder to get.
I admitedly don't know the bureaucratic details. Yes, jurisdiction shopping isn't ther right term, my bad. But ultimately the case might end up in the so called supreme court? Anyway, has the government come up with any story as to how they found the server? Is it the usual tale : we can't find hidden services because tor is so great, so we easily hacked the server since the admins are retarded and were running php 1.3?
On the other hand, we know that the NSA does whatever it wants. And parallel construction. So truly a narrow victory. Arguably illusory.