Tuesday, 7. October 2014
Topic: DRUGS - on October 7, 2014 at 5:52:00 PM CEST
Feds ‘Hacked’ Silk Road Without A Warrant? Perfectly Legal, Prosecutors Argue
With only a month until the scheduled trial of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator of the Silk Road drug site, Ulbricht’s defense lawyers have zeroed in on the argument that the U.S. government illegally hacked the billion-dollar black market site to expose the location of its hidden server. The prosecution’s latest rebuttal to that argument takes an unexpected tack: they claim that even if the FBI did hack the Silk Road without a warrant—and prosecutors are careful not to admit they did—that intrusion would be a perfectly law-abiding act of criminal investigation.
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