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FBI uses malware to spy on suspects, but it doesn’t always work

09
Dec
2013

The FBI has an elite hacker team that uses malware to spy on suspects and even secretly turn on users webcams. But despite fears of a Big Brother police state, the FBIs hacking team is nowhere near all-knowing. The scale of the FBIs hacking effort is hard to pin down, but Mo is just one of a handful of suspects known to have been targeted. The FBI bungled the installation of its malware after the suspects email address was misspelled, then had to rewrite part of the tool after an internal software update.

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