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The Federal Government seeks to change the rules to obtain warrants automatically against anyone using VPN or Tor -- because these are means of hiding the location of a computer.

See page 338 of the linked PDF.



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You're right. I was responding to the title. Sorry I wasn't specific on that.

Can anyone explain if the changes do what the headline suggests?


Broad sweeping authority to circumvent standard process designed to protect the rights of an individual is never a great idea.


If the current law says that you need to be in the targets jurisdiction to obtain a warrant, and you can't find the target's location because they are obscuring it via a VPN or Tor, doesn't it make sense that the government should be able to get a warrant in the jurisdiction where the crime was committed?

Can you link to the part that is changes to "broad sweeping authority"?


So, let me guess; you only read the HN title. The substance of the post proclaims nothing of the sort


My response was to a comment, which is apparently now deleted, and not to the article itself.




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