FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com
This was a link posted on Fark.
"The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them."
If you know anything about computers, you'll understand just how dangerous this is.
So...who here knows what NetBus is, or a browser hijack? How about pre-fetch?
"A CNET News.com review of legal documents shows that courts have approved of this technique, even though it raises questions about entrapment, the problems of identifying who's using an open wireless connection--and whether anyone who clicks on a FBI link that contains no child pornography should be automatically subject to a dawn raid by federal police."
The courts obviously know
nothing about technology.
This repulses me. It's disgusting the FBI can even try something like this, let alone get it going. The ability to ruin an innocent person's life from a distance is now in the hands of every nasty script kiddy in the world.
Of course you could just send out spam email with links and misleading hypertext. Or hijack a DNS server.
But you want to see something
really scary? (Taken from the Fark thread).
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That's what.
We already have more people in prison than any other country on Earth, both in raw numbers and proportion. What is
wrong here?
- Coeloptera
