The Surveillance System That Got Surveilled
The Surveillance System That Got Surveilled: 15 Observations on the FBI Wiretap Hack and the Exquisite Irony Thereof WASHINGTON D.C. — In a development that has delighted approximately every civil liberties lawyer, conspiracy theorist, and mildly attentive adult on the planet, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that its wiretapping infrastructure — the elaborate, government-mandated apparatus through which it listens to everyone else — has itself been listened to,…