FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers::The ends aren’t always supposed to justify the means. And a federal agency that already raised the hackles of defense lawyers around the nation during a CSAM investigation probably shouldn’t be in this much of hurry to start sending out unsolicited software to unknowing recipients. But that’s the way things work now. As a result…

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    1 year ago

    I am all for freedom and generally against empowering the government keeping in mind the potential for abuse and other consequences. But in this case I don’t think we should prevent them. It should be scrutinized to make it harder to abuse but it’s a necessity for national security.

    Edit: i will assume that tankies didn’t like the national security aspect of my comment since they want us to fail