{"id":26911,"date":"2017-04-24T16:23:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T21:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26911"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:23:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T21:23:56","slug":"ars-technica-fbi-allays-some-critics-with-first-use-of-new-mass-hacking-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26911","title":{"rendered":"ars technica: FBI allays some critics with first use of new mass-hacking warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ars technica: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/04\/fbi-allays-some-critics-with-first-use-of-new-mass-hacking-warrant\/\">FBI allays some critics with first use of new mass-hacking warrant<\/a> by Aliya Sternstein:<br \/>\nJudge authorized order allowing US to change data in thousands of infected devices.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mass hacking seems to be all the rage currently. A vigilante hacker apparently slipped secure code into vulnerable cameras and other insecure networked objects in the &#8220;Internet of Things&#8221; so that bad guys can&#8217;t corral those devices into an army of zombie computers, like what happened with the record-breaking Mirai denial-of-service botnet. The Homeland Security Department issued alerts with instructions for fending off similar \u201cBrickerbot malware,\u201d so-named because it bricks IoT devices.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps most unusual, the FBI recently obtained a single warrant in Alaska to hack the computers of thousands of victims in a bid to free them from the global botnet, Kelihos.<\/p>\n<p>On April 5, Deborah M. Smith, chief magistrate judge of the US District Court in Alaska, greenlighted this first use of a controversial court order. Critics have since likened it to a license for mass hacking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ars technica: FBI allays some critics with first use of new mass-hacking warrant by Aliya Sternstein: Judge authorized order allowing US to change data in thousands of infected devices. Mass hacking seems to be all the rage currently. A vigilante &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-26911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26912,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26911\/revisions\/26912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}