[Infowarrior] - more on.....FBI Looking to Buy Malware From Security Vendors

[Richard Forno]

> From: matthew 
> Subject: Re: [Infowarrior] - FBI Looking to Buy Malware From Security Vendors
> Date: February 6, 2014 at 12:01:31 PM EST
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>>  IAU's mission to obtain global awareness of malware threat."
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>> "The collection of this malware allows the IAU to provide actionable intelligence to the investigator in both criminal and intelligence matters," according to the document.
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> Like HELL!! This is all about injecting malware into the computers of person's of interest. The FBI has a hard-on on what the NSA gets away with and they want in on it. Or put another way the NSA got caught in flagrant violation of the law and now the task of deliberately breaking into people's computers so they can collect information to bolster cases has been assigned to the F. B. I.
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> Oh sure, they'll get a "warrant" from the rubberstamp FISA (or otherwise clueless judges) to install the malware on the pretext that they need it ("your honor, the subject doesn't use a phone, or uses burners which we can't track, so we need to tap his computer and to do that we need to infect it with 'specially crafted and narrowly targeted' *cough* software to monitor his communications and activities. afterall he's trading in electronic currency like bitcoin!!!")
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> Will the prosecutor divulge that any of the evidence was collected by hijacking the accused' (and all his associates') computer(s)? Hell No!! Will they disclose that they even so much as attempted to infect the target? Are you kidding me? There is NO law the Dept of Justice won't violate in order to wage their war on the uppity citizenry. They'll manufacture a paper trail just like they do NOW with the NSA-sourced stuff.
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> This is a disaster in the making and not just from a privacy, Constitutional protections, or abomination of the legal system, but from the "oops, our malware escaped" angle.
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