FBI Gets New Hacking Powers

December 10, 2016 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

In April the Supreme Court approved the FBI’s request for expanded powers under Rule 41. This rule change could have been rolled back if Congress decided to do that, but they did not and the changes to the rule went into effect on December 1. So what do the changes to Rule 41 of the […]

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Supreme Court Gives FBI Hacking Permission Via “Rule Change”

May 1, 2016 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

The Supreme Court, last week, gave the FBI permission to hack into any computer anywhere in the world with the stroke of a single pen. Ignoring, for the moment, whether other countries are going to think this gives them permission to hack into any computer in the U.S., this could be problematic. What is at […]

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