FBI Compromises Half of Tor; Firefox Users also Compromised by FBI Javascript Attack

[vvvvvvv]

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/08...ail?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed

FBI claims to be going after pedophiles. Instead, they are exploiting the browsers of many innocent users in a dragnet to attempt to catch a few bad ones. It's not just the NSA that's tracking everything you do online without probable cause.

 

[Mr.357Sig]

Feds suck. They're out of control. And Chicago Jesus and his mindless minions want it that way.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

I'd feel bad for the agent that had to overlook my browser history.

 

[n8thegr8]

But it's for the children! Obviously if you disagree, you must be a pederass too.

 

[LightningCrash]

Well if they can't break small laws like 4th Amendment to catch lawbreakers then maybe they just won't catch the bigtime lawbreakers any more. That will teach us.
But hey they caught pedophiles, that means all of this was okay right?


http://www.afr.com/p/technology/intel_chips_could_be_nsa_key_to_ymrhS1HS1633gCWKt5tFtI

 

[NightShade]

Getting some pedophiles off the street is a good thing but it's not only an attack on them but anyone else who uses the same system. And this is only the beginning, soon they will use it as an excuse to track possible terrorist, then copyright infringement, eventually leading to people who talk bad about the government.

They engineered a virus to mine information and send it back, so they commit a crime and it's all good. . . if a private citizen was to do this they would be putting us in jail.

 

[vvvvvvv]

They engineered a virus to mine information and send it back, so they commit a crime and it's all good. . . if a private citizen was to do this they would be putting us in jail.

This.

 

[dennishoddy]

Papers please!

 

[vvvvvvv]

Papers please!

The FBI doesn't even have the dignity to ask.

 

[nemesis]

My computer was seriously hanging up today. Some time later it spontaneously rebooted, and when it rebooted, there was a web page that referenced the FBI and cybercrime. At the bottom of the page was some information about how to pay some money to fix the problem.

I assumed it was ransomware; a virus, implanted by cyberthieves posing as the FBI. So I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled the programs.

But you guys are saying it's the actual FBI?