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Title: The FBI Can't Find 'Missing' Records of Its Hacking Tools

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/1528...

The FBI says it is unable to find records related to its purchase of a series
of hacking tools, despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them
and those purchases initially being included in a public U.S. government
procurement database before being quietly scrubbed from the internet. From a
report: The news highlights the secrecy the FBI maintains around its use of
hacking tools. The agency has previously used classified technology in
ordinary criminal investigations, pushed back against demands to provide
details of hacking operations to defendants, and purchased technology from
surveillance vendors. "Potentially responsive records were identified during
the search," a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request I sent
about a specific hacking tool contract says. "However, we were advised that
they were not in their expected locations. An additional search for the
missing records also met with unsuccessful results. Since we were unable to
review the records, we were unable to determine if they were responsive to
your request." In other words, the FBI says it identified related records,
then couldn't actually find them when it went looking.

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