FBI Develops Malicious Software to Track “Mo”

In search for a criminal called “Mo,” the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) elite hacker team has developed malicious software that will alert the agency as soon as he logs in to any computer.

Mo is being followed by the FBI for being suspect on series of bomb threats at universities and airports in the U.S. Though none were harmed because the police were able to detonate it, the federal agency wouldn’t want to play safe so they turned into technology to locate his tracks.

According to the Washington Post report, Mo has been on the run for months and has been using e-mail, chat, videos, and Internet to communicate to others.

The malicious software designed by the elite hacker team aims to collect information such as his location and evidences of his participation in the bomb threats. FBI coined it “network investigative techniques” which can download files, photos, and e-mails from a computer. The report also highlighted that it can automatically turn on the camera of the computer without the permission and knowledge of the owner.

There is a question on the legality of the actions of the FBI since it may involve others who are not even part of the crime.

The Denver federal court approved of all the surveillance plans of the FBI except for the camera activation as it could deliberately violate the Fourth Amendment of the U.S Constitution which “prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.”

The FBI refused to comment about the surveillance techniques.

Despite the “network investigative techniques” in place, Mo is still out there with his identity still a mystery. FBI has gathered information that he claimed to be friends with the orange-haired man who shot 12 people in the Denver movie theater, his Google Voice account with username “Soozan vf,” and an e-mail address Texan.slayer@yahoo.com with a full name Mohammed Arian Far.

But as most of us know, it is easy to create an e-mail address and use whatever name you want to use online. So do you think this FBI surveillance thing will work?