FBI may have used SPYWARE to nab Megaupload
 

According to CNET, the FBI may have used government issued spyware on Kim Dotcom and crew's computers. Also, other governments use similar tactics. See quote below.

Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57...earch-warrant/

Quote:

It's not only the FBI that uses spyware to intercept communications. Last fall, the Chaos Computer Club discovered that German police were using spyware that could activate the suspect's microphone and webcam.

Fucked up if true.

they have been monitoring their emails and skypes for 5 years. wonder how long filesonic, oron, rapidshare have been spied on.

I always knew that the net is the ill ;)

I'd be squirming in my pants if I was someone like Manwin right about now.

Government issued spyware. hahahahaha Awesome!

And here all you cry babies were worried about SOPA.

Wonder how long it will be before they hammer thepiratesbay? I'm sure those cocky bastards have a treasure of incriminating communication history that the feds already have.

Of course.

Where and what for do you think all those wunderkids go that make the viruses? For public protection? Yea right :)

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/internetpolice6.jpg

http://www.sqvirtual.com/img/internetpolice10.jpg

as i said, if you can count on anything its a cop to fuck things up in an investigation.

he is so gonna walk.

But isn't that what the FBI is for?

TPB hosts no content and at this point, is phasing out even hosting the torrent.

How true.

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Nothing new to learn.

It doesn't have to be about piracy. They got Al Capone for tax evasion.

There is no telling what those guys do. Money laundering, tax evasion, who knows?

this guy's being extradited to the US for having a site with links pointing to copyrighted material http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/j...us-extradition

isn't all that legal now..as long as you're the government?

Poor innocent kid was only making 15,000 euros a month off other peoples property. :)

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i'm not standing up for him, just pointing out it appears that linking rather than hosting copyrighted material seems to be enough to be arrested. Watch out google.

they have been through the courts and discovery already. they were smarter than kim dotcom, it court it was showed their moved their money through a complex structure of offshore bank accounts.

they will be fine when they get out.

sometimes you have to cheat to get to the truth

They have been through a Swedish court. If the US feds target them, they will find something to pin on them.

i have the feeling megaupload was the last to be shut down for now. could be wrong, but that's just my gut feeling.

You're probably right.

You'd think they would want to see how this turned out first.

soon they will go inside people mind to see what is going on, all by law

Sick of people saying watch out google, there is a big difference to having a site that only links to copyright infringed material vs having a search engine that crawls the whole web and links to everything.

it appears from his arrest that linking to copyrighted material is illegal, therefore in the eyes of the law google is commiting exactly the same crime.

I'm still unclear on something... did the feds review materials from FIVE YEARS BACK or were they monitoring MU for 5 years? Big difference.

monitoring five years. skype only keeps records for a month.

The FBI cites alleged conversations between DotCom and his top lieutenants, including e-mail and Skype instant-messaging logs. Some of the records go back nearly five years, to MegaUpload's earliest days as a cyberlocker service--even though Skype says "IM history messages will be stored for a maximum of 30 days" and the criminal investigation didn't begin until a few months ago.

Sources told CNET yesterday that Skype, the Internet phone service now owned by Microsoft, was not asked by the feds to turn over information and was not served with legal process.

The U.S. Department of Justice told CNET that it obtained a judge's approval before securing the correspondence, which wouldn't have been necessary in the case of an informant. "Electronic evidence was obtained though search warrants, which are reviewed and approved by a U.S. court," a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia said.

In 2007, the FBI obtained court approval to implant spyware called CIPAV on a suspect's computer, which transmitted to government computers an ongoing log of the user's outbound connections. Documents obtained by CNET through the Freedom of Information Act in 2009 show that CIPAV has been used in investigations designed to nab extortionists, database-deleting hackers, child molesters, and hitmen.