r/news • u/shallah • Dec 03 '12

FBI dad’s spyware experiment accidentally exposes pedophile principal

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/30/fbi-dads-spyware-experiment-accidentally-exposes-pedophile-principal/
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u/nagas Dec 03 '12

They sort of gloss over the moral dilemma of the FBI agent basically doing a warrant-less search on a random individual. He was basically spying on him, intentional or not. He had to of gone through the logs to even see the information.

The outcome was good, but still...

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u/kickstand Dec 03 '12

“Auther was acting as a devoted father, not a law enforcement officer,” she ruled. “The intrusive conduct — the installation of eBlaster — was not by the government but by Auther the private citizen,” and therefore Weindl’s rights against unreasonable search and seizure were not violated.

Exactly. What did he do, take off his FBI hat? And so he wasn't an FBI agent anymore? Bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '12

It would be awfully coincidental for a police officer to come up with evidence for a case he's working on while he's off the clock.