FBI prosecuting individuals for clicking on links to FBI managed honeypot computers

• http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9899151-38.html?tag=nefd.lede
• The FBI has recently adopted a novel investigative technique: posting hyperlinks that purport to be illegal videos of minors having sex, and then raiding the homes of anyone willing to click on them.
• Undercover FBI agents used this hyperlink-enticement technique, which directed Internet users to a clandestine government server, to stage armed raids of homes in Pennsylvania, New York, and Nevada last year.
• The links accessed files that were gibberish and contained no illegal images.
• CNET News.com reviewed legal documents that show court approval of this technique
• Questions of entrapment are difficult to pursue
• Not considered: problems of identifying who's using an open wireless connection--and whether anyone who clicks on a FBI link that contains no child pornography should be automatically subject to a dawn raid by federal police.

• http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2252.html

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