Seattle Times ‘Outraged’ at Method FBI Used to Catch Suspect: ‘Not Only Does That Cross a Line, It Erases It’
Oct. 28, 2014 1:26am
Oliver Darcy
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained documents revealing the FBI created a phony webpage with an Associated Press byline and “in the style of The Seattle Times” to lure an individual suspected of making bomb threats in 2007 to Lacey’s Timberline High School. Agents then planted software on his computer and tracked his location.
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It would seem this would be “fruit of the poisonous tree”?
At the very least, it would also seem to be a violation of the Computer Trespass law.
Never mind copyright law.
“Move along citizen, nothing to see here.” — unknown
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