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To answer this question: Yes. And it happens at the NSA everyday when they are monitoring suspected criminals whether they are terrorists planning attacks, for
by canistr 15y ago
To answer this question: Yes. And it happens at the NSA everyday when they are monitoring suspected criminals whether they are terrorists planning attacks, foreign spies conducting industrial or economic espionage, drug dealers trafficking banned substances, pedophiles, and other similar criminal activities.
This should come as no surprise to anyone that the NSA or FBI does contain the money, manpower, and legal authority to do things 'in the public interest'.
Patriotic hackers are a different matter and though they tend to hide within the underground, they often times are contracted by authorities to gather information or sabotage other more devious hackers.
EDIT: And of course, someone has to downvote me because they disagree with me pointing out what is already happening. I don't understand how you can disagree with facts.
- bh42222 15y agoWait, so if the government breaks the law (I'm assuming you meant illegal hacking, otherwise never mind) they must be doing it for the right reasons and it is great and admirable and wonderful. But if private individuals illegally hack someone, not for profit, but to release information about cronyism, corruption, lax security, then those private hackers are just schmucks? This is then similar to how if the government tortures a suspect, that's OK because he might really be guilty. But obviously torture is wrong if anyone else does it?
- canistr 15y agoNo, I'm clearly talking about legal hacking. That's the whole point of "public interest".
- bh42222 15y agoDo you need a court order to legally hack, like a search warrant?
- canistr 15y agoUnder wiretapping laws, yes. But unlike some search warrants, they don't have to be presented to the person under investigation nor do the warrants have to be confirmed to be in use by authorities because that would compromise the investigations.