The Supreme Court just made it easier for the FBI to hack innocent people. New rules approved by the court on Thursday could allow any U.S. judge to authorize the FBI to potentially hack any computer in the United States or overseas with a single warrant. “Possibly the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception,” according to security expert and law Professor Ahmed Ghappour. Motherboard reports: On Thursday, the court approved a controversial change in in Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, a procedural rule that regulates when and under what circumstances judges can issue warrants for searches and seizures. Under the old language of Rule 41, as we explained last week, judges could approve warrants authorizing hacking—or as the FBI calls it, network investigative technique, or NIT—only within their jurisdiction. With the changes, first proposed by the Department of Justice in 2014, judges could now approve hacking operations that go beyond their local jurisdiction if the target’s location is unknown or is part of a network of infected computers, or botnets, under the control of criminals. This change would be “the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception,” according to Ahmed [...]