PFA: home computers have no "reasonable expectation of privacy"

[Eric Oyen]

good lucl getting a password out of me. If I had the option like I do on the iPhone, I could set it up so that so many retries would erase the system. Most machines today have the TPM unit on board, so that can be used. With enough security in place, hacking or cracking just ceases to be worth the effort. Now all that needs be done is hardening the OS and the network stack.

-eric of the Technomage Guild.

On Jul 11, 2016, at 10:30 PM, der.hans wrote:

> Am 10. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Tom Roche so:
> 
> moin moin,
> 
> privacy is overrated, we should just mandate making all home walls out of
> glass.
> 
> Maybe it's time to notch up the desktop security series to be a desktop
> hardening series.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
> 
>> Apologies to those who've already seen this, but it was news to me:
>> 
>> Last month (Jun 2016), federal district judge Henry Coke Morgan, Jr[1] ruled that the Fourth Amendment[2] does not protect home computers. A criminal defendant has no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding an in-home personal computer, and the federal government does not need a warrant to hack one.[3] Particularly, "a computer afforded Fourth Amendment protection in other circumstances is not protected from Government actors who take advantage of an easily broken system"[4] to implant malware. The full decision is in this scanned PDF[5].
>> 
>> Gotta start hardening, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox.com>
>> 
>> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Coke_Morgan,_Jr.
>> [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
>> [3]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/federal-court-fourth-amendment-does-not-protect-your-home-computer
>> [4]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/fbis-use-of-tor-exploit-is-like-peering-through-broken-blinds/
>> [5]: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/06/23/matish_suppression_edva.pdf
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