I'm not saying that, I'm just referring to the comment about 'misrepresentation' in the headline. As for the FBI hacking outside their borders ... Obviously,

I'm not saying that, I'm just referring to the comment about 'misrepresentation' in the headline. As for the FBI hacking outside their borders ... Obviously, this is immediately problematic, no doubt. But we live in a new, globalized world, and it includes not just social issues and business, but law enforcement. A lot of pernicious crimes like sex-trafficking and child pornography etc. are very international in nature. Ideally, we'd want authorities to work with one another, which is obviously the case in many ways ... but ... it's not always so easy. A lot of these regimes are totally corrupt, inefficient, have other priorities, or are politicized. Remember that we are trying to achieve actual justice - and the rules are there to enable that - not the other way around. I'm not exactly comfortable with what the FBI might be doing - that said, it depends a lot on what they are actually doing. If the FBI hacks into the computers of some sex-traffickers in Burma, Ukraine, Belarus and is able to catch them ... then all the power to them. I think it's probably for the greater good, even if it does bend some rules. Now if they start to go after political dissidents, and journalists, well, we have a problem :).