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Relevant section: (6) a magistrate judge with authority in any district 7 where activities related to a crime may have 8 occurred has authority to issue
by angersock 12y ago
Relevant section:
(6) a magistrate judge with authority in any district
7 where activities related to a crime may have
8 occurred has authority to issue a warrant to use
9 remote access to search electronic storage media
10 and to seize or copy electronically stored
11 information located within or outside that district
12 if:
13 (A) the district where the media or information
14 is located has been concealed through
15 technological means; or
Note that this doesn't even point out VPN/Tor by name, just "concealed through technological means", which might even be broadly interpreted to include WHOIS privacy guard services or other really silly things.
- fixermark 12y agoIt's also not authorizing automatic warrants; it's just increasing the range of magistrates who could be authorized to issue a warrant. But if our headlines stick too close to the facts, they don't make it to the front page of HN, right? ;)