Am 10. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Tom Roche so:
moin moin,
privacy is overrated, we should just mandate making all home walls out of
glass.
Maybe it's time to notch up the desktop security series to be a desktop
hardening series.
ciao,
der.hans
Apologies to those who've already seen this, but it was news to me:
Last month (Jun 2016), federal district judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr[1] ruled that the
Fourth Amendment[2] does not protect home computers. A criminal defendant has no
reasonable expectation of privacy regarding an in-home personal computer, and the federal
government does not need a warrant to hack one.[3] Particularly, "a computer
afforded Fourth Amendment protection in other circumstances is not protected from
Government actors who take advantage of an easily broken system"[4] to implant
malware. The full decision is in this scanned PDF[5].
Gotta start hardening, Tom Roche <[email protected]>
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Coke_Morgan,_Jr.
[2]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
[3]:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer
[4]:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/fbis-use-of-tor-exploit-is-like-peering-through-broken-blinds/
[5]: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/06/23/matish_suppression_edva.pdf
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