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Would this apply retroactively to warrants already issued? We know that in the Freedom Hosting takedown, an exploit was deployed by the FBI to identify the machines of users on the Freedom Hosting network. After that incident, there has been no resulting arrests from that intelligence.

Lets suppose the FBI deployed their exploit on Freedom Hosting's servers but ran into legal issues afterwards with their search warrants due to their jurisdiction.

If this were to pass, would it retroactively legalize those warrants that were issued in July 2013?



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