FBI created fake Seattle Times news story in scheme to implant spyware on bomb-threat suspect’s computer. The tactic worked when the story appeared in the suspect’s MySpace feed, leading to the arrest of a 15-year-old who had been threatening to blow up a high school near Olympia.
The only problem – The Seattle Times had no idea that the FBI created this fake URL. Ethical or not?
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2024888170_fbinewspaper1xml.html
FBI created phony Seattle Times story to find bomb-threat suspect
seattletimes.com
The FBI created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times Web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Timberline High School in 2007, documents reveal.
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