A judge recently granted the FBI permission to install software on the computer of a suspect who reportedly threatened violence unless Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes was released from prison.
The FBI, frustrated in its attempts to track him down, used special software that would install itself in Mo’s computer when he opened his e-mail.
It was designed specifically to help agents track his location and his movements.
But the software never worked as designed, the paper said, and Mo remains at large.
The feds had gotten permission to install the software from a Denver judge.
The agency tried to use it on at least one other probe, but a Houston judge described the method as “extremely intrusive’’ and probably unconstitutional — and shot it down.
Online freedom may soon be a thing of the past.
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