FBI writes fake news story to install spyware on kid's computer

[equanimity]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/28/359655386/fbi-uses-newspapers-name-to-send-spyware

Kid was maybe trying to bomb his school, but probably just talking about it.  FBI writes a fake news story about the kid hoping he'd click lol.  It works.  A few people upset about it.

The AP says its name was "misappropriated," and calls the ploy "unacceptable."

The Seattle Times has also expressed its outrage, though it's not clear it has the same grounds to object. The paper initially reported today that the FBI had created a "fake Seattle Times Web page," but the FBI says it never used the paper's name.

Kinda scary the feds are allowed to do stuff like this.

[baby raper]

I dont get it.

[Arnox]

So... He was arrested for threatening the school even if he might have been joking? Can they do that?

[Obbe]

So... He was arrested for threatening the school even if he might have been joking? Can they do that?

LOL

Who's going to stop them?

[Idiosyncrasy]

There was crime, and now there's pre-crime.

[Umbrella Corp]

His psychopass was too high