they actually advocate disassembling the wall plug and cutting hot leads while the building wiring is still live.
Isn't that kind of the point? How else would you do it?
Isn't that kind of the point? How else would you do it?
Edit: On downvote. No, I'm serious, sometimes you just shouldn't do some things despite the technical possibility because they can't be done safely in a practical real-world setting.
There's probably very few ways to ride an elephant to the airport as well, but a taxi might be a better choice. Now I'll admit that I can't think of a better way to "seize a running computer" off the top of my head but ripping open the wall and hacking at live wires just doesn't strike me as the very best way. Lets be sure we're not riding elephants here.
Considering government usually has an exemption clause to health and safety anyway, I don't think the FBI are going to be worrying about it that much.
So where else is handling live wiring done. I'm honestly curious.
Power companies use a whole range of live working - the guys in helicopters are a minority, but there's a lot more mundane stuff done live: