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What's the legality of using a vulnerability to monitor someone if you have a warrant? Seems like it would still be illegal.
by burtonator 7y ago
What's the legality of using a vulnerability to monitor someone if you have a warrant?
Seems like it would still be illegal.
- inlined 7y agoParallel construction can hide that illegal surveillance ever happened.
- jlgaddis 7y agoYou mean like when FBI got warrants to exploit Tor users?
- cm2187 7y agoSecret services are in the business of exactly doing illegal things on behalf of the state. I think there is pretty much nothing in the daily business of the CIA or the NSA that wouldn’t land an ordinary citizen in jail. Whether it is to convince foreign officials to leak information, or bribe them, or plot a coup, or assassinate enemies of the state, or intercept some communications, etc. This is no different from any other secret service in the world. The NSA is no more guilty than a fox in the henhouse is guilty of being a fox.
- thephyber 7y agoThe answer to the question probably depends on unfettered access to all of the Executive Orders (and Decisions and Memos) and White House Counsel interpretations of existing law. We mere mortals will likely never know.