October 28, 2014

FBI Punks Bomb Suspect With Fake News Story





[From article]
The FBI’s elaborate trickery was exposed Monday on Twitter by Christopher Soghoian — a principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington DC.
“In 2007, FBI sent malware via a link intended to look like a Seattle Times/AP story,” he tweeted, followed by a link to the EFF documents.
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“The FBI impersonating the press is just as irresponsible as the CIA running fake immunization programs,” he added. “Completely unacceptable.”
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“We are outraged that the FBI, with the apparent assistance of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect,” Seattle Times Editor Kathy Best told her paper. “Not only does that cross a line, it erases it.”
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Montoya added that using a fake news story on a bogus web page is only done in the most dire of situations.
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In order to lure the unidentified minor into their trap, FBI agents created a fabricated news story about local Thurston County bomb threats accompanied by an email link “in the style of The Seattle Times.”

http://nypost.com/2014/10/28/fbi-concocted-fake-online-news-stories-to-track-peoples-whereabouts/

FBI nabbed bomb suspect using fake online news story
By Chris Perez
New York Post
October 28, 2014 | 2:03pm

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