Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI is in the business of hacking computers.
Kind of. NBC reports that the FBI is installing malware and spyware on computers belonging to suspected terrorists or pedophiles, which allows agents to send a virus or other malware to spy on the suspects.
The hacking is so sophisticated that the FBI can switch on the webcam without the user ever knowing it, privacy activists said.
“In the last few years the FBI has created a team that has solely focused on delivering what we call malware — viruses and worms — to people’s computers to get control of them,” Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist for the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, told NBC News.
The FBI declined to comment for the story.
