From the Constitution Fanboys at Snarky Bastards,
The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.
Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year. The supposed video files actually were gibberish and contained no illegal images.
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The defendant in that case, Travis Carter, suggested that any of the neighbors could be using his wireless network. (The public defender’s office even sent out an investigator who confirmed that dozens of homes were within Wi-Fi range.)
Better get the instruction manual for encrypting your home wireless network.
yojoe (in no-click mode) out
Not that I have every accidentally clicked on a child porn site, but I have definitely landed myself in a place that I didn’t want to be on the internet. It’s not a crime to open up a website without the full knowledge of where your landing. Although its awesome that the feds would want to develop some kind of system to catch the sick child pedophiles that are among us, they should really think of a more solid plan.