The FBI did not need a search warrant to hack a suspect's computer during an investigation of a large child pornography website, a US judge has ruled, in a decision one group of private advocates called "dangerously flawed."
In a decision unsealed on Thursday, US District Judge Henry Morgan in Newport News, Virginia, rejected a bid to suppress evidence against Edward Matish, one of at least 137 defendants charged in the probe of the website Playpen.
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