I-Team: Is government hacking OK if it finds child porn?

A federal judge in Cincinnati will soon issue a ruling that could impact hundreds of arrests made nationwide when the FBI hacked into the world’s largest child pornography site. In the coming weeks, U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett will decide if FBI agents who secretly hacked into a dark-web child porn site called “The Playpen” must turn over the spyware code agents used in the international sting operation. A Fairfield man is launching a defense that could potentially impact the FBI’s work on child porn arrests nationwide.