Ok guys... seriously? The FBI found a bot-net that was already in existence. They figured out the ports and ID schema to gain control of it. Rather than have the people "in charge of it" fry the OS's or change the access... they simply shut it down using what was already available as a tool through the bot-net program. This was a safety measure, and nothing more. They didn't hack the machines... they didn't send codes to a computer that wasn't already compromised in some way.
As someone who does this kind of thing for a living (CEH/CPTE), please learn more before you just fly off the handle and start spouting "big brother" comments. They used a tool someone else maliciously installed in a way that prevented further issues for the time being... if you see something wrong with that, then you have serious trust issues.
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As someone who does this kind of thing for a living (CEH/CPTE), please learn more before you just fly off the handle and start spouting "big brother" comments. They used a tool someone else maliciously installed in a way that prevented further issues for the time being... if you see something wrong with that, then you have serious trust issues.
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