This sums it up pretty well:
Here's the good part, though:
Because you use the internet, you have 'no reasonable expectation' that the programs you are running on your computer should be known only to you - got it?
Criminals - all of them.
FBI agents trying to track the source of e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington high school last month sent the suspect a secret surveillance program designed to surreptitiously monitor him and report back to a government server, according to an FBI affidavit obtained by Wired News.
The court filing offers the first public glimpse into the bureau's long-suspected spyware capability, in which the FBI adopts techniques more common to online criminals.
Here's the good part, though:
Under a ruling this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, such surveillance -- which does not capture the content of the communications -- can be conducted without a wiretap warrant, because internet users have no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in the data when using the internet.
Because you use the internet, you have 'no reasonable expectation' that the programs you are running on your computer should be known only to you - got it?
Criminals - all of them.
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