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Senators Introduce Bill To Block Expansion Of Fbi Hacking Authority


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Wyden boards an elevator as he departs after the weekly party caucus luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in WashingtonBy Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A small group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill Thursday that would block a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S. judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas, arguing the change would expand the FBI’s hacking authority. The one-page legislation from Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Republican Senator Rand Paul would undo the change, adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in a private vote last month and without congressional involvement, to procedural rules governing the court system. Republican Senator Steve Daines and Democrats Tammy Baldwin and Jon Tester are co-sponsoring the Stopping Mass Hacking Act.




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The dumb thing here is, if the FBI/CIA/NSA or any other well-funded cyber-warfare-capable entity has even the slightest ability to penetrate a system any they have any interest in doing so, a warrant is nothing and will mean nothing, signed or denied...

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