explainguncontrolandsafespaces:
The newly approved rule change by the U.S. Supreme Court will allow FBI to search and seize any computer around the world, found to be using privacy tools like VPN or Tor. The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday quietly approved a rule change to Rule No.41, that would allow a federal magistrate judge to issue a search and seizure warrant for any target using anonymity software like Tor to browse the internet.
Rule 41 will become a law in December if the U.S. Congress doesnt take any legislative action against it. As said in our previous article, the new ruling bestows enormous powers to FBI to be able to search computers remotely—even if the bureau doesn’t know where that computer is located—if a user has anonymity software installed on it.
The rule changes, which the FBI said were necessary to combat cyber crime, come amid escalating tensions between the intelligence community and technology and privacy advocates, and just a day after the U.S. House of Representatives advanced a bill that would require the government to obtain a probable cause warrant from a judge before seizing data stored with tech companies such as Facebook, Google, and Dropbox.
will allow FBI to search and seize any computer around the world, found to be using privacy tools like VPN or Tor
What the fuck? Nearly every business computer and all of those of us who want privacy are now criminals?
This is an attack on our First and Fourth Amendments. This bullshit simply will not stand.
Call your representatives on this one, folks. This is horseshit.
Update, in case you needed it. ^
What the shit
This is preposterous.
[[Okay, I know this isn’t Repairman related, but y’all should know that this passed.]]
Tor & VPN users labeled as criminals will be hacked & spied by FBI under new law
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