I can understand the "greater good" mentality that prompted the FBI to seek and, let's not forget from a judge, obtain court approval to commit this act of sanctioned government trespass on private computers.
Who's to know what else was on the payload of the programming that FBI sent to each computer, even if it was to monitor the life of the bot programming it still would be an unlawful/uninivited seizure of that virtual property of the computer owners whouldn't you think?
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FBI - crosses ethical lines to cut un-ethical lines
I can understand the "greater good" mentality that prompted the FBI to seek and, let's not forget from a judge, obtain court approval to commit this act of sanctioned government trespass on private computers.
Who's to know what else was on the payload of the programming that FBI sent to each computer, even if it was to monitor the life of the bot programming it still would be an unlawful/uninivited seizure of that virtual property of the computer owners whouldn't you think?