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FBI using spoofed web sites to install spyware.

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["http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-created-fake-seattle-news-story-catch-bomb-threat-suspect-n235346"] 


"The FBI created a fake news story on a phony webpage designed in the 
style of a Seattle newspaper to nab a bomb threat suspect in 2007, 
according to documents obtained by a civil liberties group."

"Once the link was opened, the FBI in Seattle was able to plant 
software on the suspect's computer, according to the documents released 
by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit 
that defends civil liberties online."

Reading between the lines here, I find it to be pretty likely that this 
was done by hijacking the actual web site in question, not by merely 
spoofing it, perhaps with the consent of the web site's owners, maybe 
without.  I suspect that these kinds of spyware-interdiction systems 
are probably active on many major web sites.  A couple National 
Security Letters later and nobody wants to talk about it.

After all these last few years have shown us that, if it can be done, 
it will be done, and if it's illegal this is no obstacle, just a 
potential PR problem in the future - that is if anybody even finds out.

There is no law.

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