re: The FBI Can Hack Your Computer With No Warrant

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Allegably

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Supposably?

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Not that it will matter to the OT but there is a bit more to this when you read the article. They seized, with a warrant, a server running a child porn site. They then continued running the server and captured all the IP addresses coming in. Then went after the owners of the IP addresses. It's on the edge of not being acceptable but not as if they are sitting around Quantico just made hacking everyone's laptops.

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Except that wasn't his reasoning. What you're saying is more like an authorized wiretap. You pick up dirt on anyone calling that number.

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Generally, one has no reasonable expectation of privacy in an IP address when using the internet

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This is the most intellectually dishonest thing I have read in a while. Just because using the internet requires an understanding of risks and vulnerabilities does not mean that you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. That's why people use firewalls, secure server verifications, and authenticity screenings.

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Most judges are pretty technically illiterate.

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Am I the only one that gets super nervous that these dinosaurs are the ones making landmark decisions on technical cases when most of them don't have the slightest fricking clue the ramifications? Wasn't there a Super Court judge who admitted they don't have email. How in the frick is that person qualified to make a decision about a computer/internet ruling.

if they hack into my computer, they would only do it once since the first time would bore them to tears.

Basically, the issue here is this:

"Because we all know that child porn is so reprehensible, is it OK to violate the constitution in order to efficiently sweep up and incarcerate consumers and producers of child pornography?"

And the answer, of course, is: No.

patriot act

and yes, thanx Obama for keeping it going, when it could of expired.