Finally someone that is willingly to uphold the Constitution regardless of whether the person actually committed the crime or not. That is how it is supposed to be .. I still wish when my son was charged that I knew more about it (I learned anything I know AFTER the fact) because I have always thought that it was a shoddy case and there were things about it that did not make sense (not fed though)

This was the "Playpen" investigation where the feds used a NIT---network investigative technique----to obtain the IP addresses of those who visited a child porn site called Playpen on the Dark Net.

The problem was that they violated Rule 41 when they obtained the warrant, which made the warrant invalid and the subsequent evidence collected inadmissible. They had to throw out the evidence in several cases and more are pending.

Not to be outdone, the US government has already come up with a new proposal to address this issue regarding Rule 41. The Senate is considering changing the federal judicial rules, which would let ANY judge sign warrants for law enforcement hacking purposes. In fact, those warrants would be useful for targeting computers outside their jurisdiction, such as any device running anonymity or privacy software.

Playpen had 215,000 members and the FBI obtained 1,300 separate IP addresses; so this was a huge blow to their hacking campaign.

BTW, in the Playpen case the FBI took over the server and traded child porn---uploaded and downloaded CP---for two weeks. In other words, the FBI ran the child porn site and distributed CP.

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A little bit of sense in the judiciary is like the brief scent of sweet perfume.

As far as I am concerned, anyone from the FBI who participated in playpen should have been prosecuted just like anyone else is. How do we know that the no one in the FBI used the material in a way OTHER than the entrapment of individuals (and that's what it was, entrapment). How can we be sure there were no other purposes such as sexual gratification? We're just supposed to trust the most honest federal organization in our history with a building named after an American hero, J. Edgar Hoover. Good grief.