[ISN] FBI "hack" raises global security concerns

[Nexus]

I have to say, the bit I find the most amusing (my sense of humour I guess)
is :

> Once in, investigators browsed through the directories on both servers
> and selected, then compressed, a large number of files. The agents
> then downloaded the 1.3GB file to their own computers.
>
> Before they began to sift for evidence, the FBI did obtain a search
> warrant to look at the files.

So that's all right then ?   And if the search warrant was refused, of
course they would have deleted the information without looking at it...
'onest Guv, yer 'onour *tugs forelock* ;-)

JJ

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brewis, Mark" <mark.brewis@edl.uk.eds.com>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:44 AM
Subject: RE: [ISN] FBI "hack" raises global security concerns
[snip]

> As long as the actions were legal within the jurisdiction of the country
> within which they were taken?  We need the Supreme Court ruling
clarified -
> was no US warrant in place, or was there no warrant at all?  If there was
no
> Mexican warrant, is evidence seizure without warrant acceptable practice
in
> Mexico, and is evidence obtained in that fashion then admissible?
>
> In this case, no Russian officials were present or assisting US actions,
> unlike the Mexican example.  I think a distinction could be drawn between
> these cases.
>
> This is quite a development.
>
> Mark
>
>