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Evidence FBI Gathered While Running Porn Site Thrown Out Again
Emmons, Alex http://theintercept.com/2016/09/20/evidence-fbi-gathered-while-running-porn-site-thrown-out-again/
Publisher: The Intercept
Date Written: 20/09/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
For the third time, a federal judge has ruled that a mass hack by the FBI - which ensnared thousands of computers based on only one warrant - was illegal. Like the previous ones, the decision was based on a jurisdictional technicality: Rule 41 of criminal procedure holds that magistrate judges can only authorize searches inside their jurisdiction - meaning a judge in one district cannot authorize a search in a different geographical location. The hack in question was part of an investigation into a child pornography website called Playpen. Playpen was hosted on the dark web, meaning that users could only access it through a service that concealed their IP address, making it impossible for the FBI to tell who was accessing the site and downloading child pornography.
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