The FBI authorized by the Supreme Court to hack any PC

Democratic Senator Ron Wyden considers that a massive intrusion hundreds of millions of computers would target the vast majority of people who have done nothing wrong.

The Supreme Court of the United States adopted amendments to the federal law on criminal procedures to enable police authorities and investigators to go away in any computer located anywhere in the world.These somewhat draconian amendments would take effect on 1 December.

We knew the US reluctant to comply in broad privacy - revelations of Snowden affair around the existence of a global surveillance program PRISM to support - and this may well continue.Despite all the efforts of the League of protection of freedoms and human rights and mobilization of major cloud players (Google, Microsoft, Apple ...) to try to preserve the privacy of individuals against large state espionage scale, the Supreme Court of the United States took a momentous decision accordingly.

The US institution has just approved several amendments to the federal law on criminal proceedings, including Section 41 levels, which allow investigators to take all necessary means to enable the authorities and investigators (police, FBI ... ) to enter remotely on any computer located anywhere in the world. "With these new rules, the government may now be able to get access and find information on hundreds of thousands or millions of computers at a time, most of the machines concerned may belong to victims rather than 'to people behind cybercrime, "said Democratic Senator Ron Wyden. The latter had already distinguished himself in December 2014 for presenting a bill to prevent the government from exploiting backdoors on software to facilitate its surveillance operations.

The Congress called upon to decide by December ¹

These amendments adopted by the US Supreme Court must now be approved by Congress by 1 December. Voting could be suspended from the US election results, the results will be announced on November 8, according to the political color of the winning candidate ...