"...the FBI...lured two suspected Russian hackers to Seattle with job offers at a fictitious security company. After monitoring the duo's connection to two servers in Russia, the FBI used the suspects' passwords to download incriminating data from those servers." the article points out this was done -before- obtaining a search warrant and -without- an 'ok' from the russians. the fbi maintains they waited for a search warrant before examining the 1.3GB file. i don't believe a commentary is needed. here's the article: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5785729.html?tag=tp_pr