This is how the government is catching people who use child porn sites
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-the-government-is-using-malware-to-ensnare-child-porn-users/2016/01/21/fb8ab5f8-bec0-11e5-83d4-42e3bceea902_story.html
The issue, said Ghappour, the law professor, is not the use of
the malware per se, but "whether hacking warrants are written
narrowly enough to guarantee that only those culpable set the
trigger [to launch the NIT], and consequently get hacked," he
said. "Given the scale of these operations, the smallest mistake
could result in hundreds, if not thousands, of privacy
violations." Privacy advocates concerned about the government
doing mass hacks point to the case of TorMail, an anonymous
email service, now shuttered. TorMail, which despite the name is
not affiliated with the group behind Tor, was used by a range of
people, from criminals to dissidents and journalists.
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