It's OK for the FBI's fake hacks to hack suspects' PCs, says DoJ watchdog

Feds' 'request for comment' to school bomb threat teen was loaded with malware

No rules were broken when an FBI agent posed as a journalist to infect a criminal suspect's PC with spyware, says a US watchdog. And the Feds can do it again, provided they get the undercover operation signed off by their higher-ups."