{"id":13591,"date":"2014-10-07T11:29:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13591"},"modified":"2014-10-07T11:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:29:03","slug":"wired-com-feds-hacked-silk-road-without-a-warrant-perfectly-legal-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13591","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: Feds \u2018Hacked\u2019 Silk Road Without A Warrant? Perfectly Legal, Prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/10\/feds-silk-road-hack-legal\/\">Feds \u2018Hacked\u2019 Silk Road Without A Warrant? Perfectly Legal, Prosecutors Argue<\/a> by Andy Greenberg:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With only a month until the scheduled trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator of the Silk Road drug site, Ulbricht\u2019s defense lawyers have zeroed in on the argument that the U.S. government illegally hacked the billion-dollar black market site to expose the location of its hidden server. The prosecution\u2019s latest rebuttal to that argument takes an unexpected tack: they claim that even if the FBI did hack the Silk Road without a warrant\u2014and prosecutors are careful not to admit they did\u2014that intrusion would be a perfectly law-abiding act of criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening the prosecutors submitted the latest in a series of combative court filings from the two sides of the Silk Road case that have clashed over Ulbricht\u2019s Fourth Amendment right to privacy. The government\u2019s new argument responds to an affidavit from an expert witness, tech lawyer Joshua Horowitz, brought in by Ulbricht\u2019s defense to poke holes in the FBI\u2019s story of how it located the Silk Road server. In a letter filed last week, Horowitz called out inconsistencies in the FBI\u2019s account of stumbling across the Silk Road\u2019s IP address while innocently entering \u201cmiscellaneous data\u201d into its login page. He testified that the FBI\u2019s actions instead sounded more like common hacker intrusion techniques. Ulbricht\u2019s defense has called for an evidentiary hearing to cross examine the FBI about the operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: Feds \u2018Hacked\u2019 Silk Road Without A Warrant? Perfectly Legal, Prosecutors Argue by Andy Greenberg:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13592,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions\/13592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}