Nov 15 2002

U.S. Gov’t Agencies need Warrant to Hack

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One common question was answered this month. The seemingly two-faced idea of sending hackers to prison for life and using them to hack others recieved some direction. A U.S. judge ruled that info found by a hacker without a warrant could not be used against the sick puppy that was hacked.

From ZDnet:
“A federal judge has ruled that law enforcement officials went too far when they tried to use evidence gathered by a known hacker to convict someone of possessing child pornography.
The decision, handed down earlier this month, is believed to be the first to say that hacking into an Internet-connected home PC without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Read the whole story here.

Not entirely within the world of p2p, but this story reinforces the opinion that proposed anti-p2p bills might have to remove their “justified” hacking content.

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