an enormous impact on Americans' constitutional rights should be debated by Congress, not maneuvered through an obscure bureaucratic process."

Rule 41 was brought to the forefront by the recent FBI bust of a child sex abuse site and its use of a Network Investigation Technique (NIT) and magistrate judge warrant to track down users.

Though Congress has not previously had much luck passing limits on government hacking, SMH could prove more successful, thanks to the bi-partisan backing of Wyden and Paul, both prominent members of their respective parties in the Senate. The bill is also co-sponsored by a bi-partisan group comprised of Tammy Baldwin, (D-WI), Steve Daines (R-MT) and Jon Tester (D-MT).

The Senators hope that, with both parties on board, the Act can pass through the Senate, then over toNEWS IN BRIEF:

A NUN who sent envelopes containing white powder to Sheffield MP Nick Clegg has been sentenced to a community order.

Sister Ruth Augustus, aged 72, also scrawled slogans about devil worship and freemasonry on the letters to the Deputy Prime Minister. They were intercepted at a mail screening centre and there were fears the power could have been anthrax.

She also sent letters to former Labour minister Baroness Scotland and Conservative MP Edward Leigh.

Augustus, of Leyton, East London, was found guilty of six hoaxes involving noxious substances. She was given a two year community order at the Old Bailey and told to undergo mental health treatment.

Shed set ablaze

A SHED was broken into on Slate Street, Lowfield, Sheffield, overnight a week last Sunday, and an outhouse on Blackstock Road,