Did you hear the one about the FBI creating a phony news story on a fake Seattle Times Web page in order to plant software in the computer of someone suspected of making bomb threats. Yes, that
actually happened back in 2007, The Seattle Times reports, citing documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil
Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., called the incident “outrageous.”
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