16.10.2014 - 07:38 [ Techdirt ]

Silk Road Judge Won‘t Examine FBI‘s Warrantless Server Hacking; Dismisses Suppression Motion On ‚Privacy Interest‘ Technicality

Judge Katherine Forrest has shot down Ross Ulbricht‘s defense team‘s motion to suppress evidence it claims was acquired illegally by the FBI. The FBI asserted in its response to the motion that Ulbricht had expressed no privacy interest in the alleged Silk Road servers located in Iceland. The FBI further claimed that it needed no legal permission (i.e., a warrant) to hack foreign servers during criminal investigations.