The warning is a rare admission from the FBI about the threat from fake emergency data requests submitted by hackers with access to police email accounts.
Here’s a wild idea, don’t give the police information without a warrant. I know the Constitution is old and all, but it’s still the law.
Everything seems lawless now.
Unless you have a legal team, you’re powerless and it’s CYA. I wonder who that structure benefits, possibly those with money and access to legal teams?
Seriously, corporations, it’s a free pass! “Sorry, we can’t release any customer information without a court order due to the legal liability if we were to release the information to a an unknown party acting fraudulently.”
Although, I have to ask (although I’m pretty sure of the answer); are some companies just giving up whatever information is requested to anyone with a .gov address? What if its spoofed, or typosquatted?
It’s not unconstitutional if the companies give the info willingly.
Just because they found a stupid loophole doesn’t make it any more acceptable. They’re using our tax dollars to pay corporations that are spying on us, for our information. What they should be doing in a functional world is outlawing the companies from spying on us to begin with.
The government too. Snowden showed us what was going on and the government wants to arrest him
Oh you mean the thing I’ve been warning about for 20yr finally happened? Neat. NOW can the “I don’t do nothing wrong so they can have my data” crowd wake the fuck up? Still no? Ok fuck me I guess…
No, you misunderstand. It’s not that it’s finally happening, it’s that they’ve finally admitted it’s happening. For all we know, it’s been going on for the past 20 years
Lol fair, I could’ve worded that better.
