[Infowarrior] - FBI Agents Pose as Repairmen to Bypass Warrant Process

[Richard Forno]

FBI Agents Pose as Repairmen to Bypass Warrant Process
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/11/fbi_agents_pose.html

This is a creepy story. The FBI wanted access to a hotel guest's room without a warrant. So agents broke his Internet connection, and then posed as Internet technicians to gain access to his hotel room without a warrant.

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Basically, the agents snooped around the hotel room, and gathered evidence that they submitted to a magistrate to get a warrant. Of course, they never told the judge that they had engineered the whole outage and planted the fake technicians.

More coverage of the case here.

This feels like an important case to me. We constantly allow repair technicians into our homes to fix this or that technological thingy. If we can't be sure they are not government agents in disguise, then we've lost quite a lot of our freedom and liberty.

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