rged in the probe of the child pornography website Playpen.
Morgan's decision said that even though the FBI obtained a warrant to perform its hacking activities, a warrant wasn't required since Matish had no reasonable expectation of privacy while browsing the Internet.
The FBI took advantage of a vulnerability in the Tor browser to install malware on the computers of more than 1,000 visitors of the child pornography website (found on the Dark Web, only accessible using Tor). The malware helped the FBI track down those accessing the site, and it proceeded to bust as many people as it could, including Matish.
The Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure, does not apply to "Government actors who take advantage of an easily broken system to peer into a user's computer," the decision said. Morgan also noted that "traditionally, the privacy concerns embedded in the Fourth Amendment only applied to government actors' physical trespasses."
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