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Re:I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raid... by voxic11 on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:38PM (#21993730)
Its to allow them to continue monitoring his activities going forward, without the need for annoying warrants and physical searches.
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Re:I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raid... by marblar on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @01:13PM (#21994111)
I think the point is that they could have just installed the malware since they had physical possession for an entire year.
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Re:I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raid... by tjoff on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @05:55PM (#21996659)
And the counterpoint is that he'd obviously got a new computer and any further surveillance would benefit from access to that one.
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Re:I opened a link some random person sent me and I got raid... by Timpy on Thursday January 09, 2020 @08:22AM (#22000941)
That's a good point. I was assuming the old hard drive was loaded on old equipment but that's not necessarily the case.
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