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DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by issue0315@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

During the court-sanctioned intrusion, the DOJ "enabled temporary collection of non-content routing information" that would "expose GRU attempts to thwart the operation." This did not "impact the routers' normal functionality or collect legitimate user content information," the DOJ claims.

I bet.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

If they wanted to, absolutely they could. They didn't though. Unless they thought you were a spy...