On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-su > >spicious > > Of course using "an operating system other than the one used regularly by > others" is prima facie evidence of criminality. If you did not know this > the next edition of "Laptop Hunters" will set you straight. >
This came up on Tech Dirt recently. If I remember the gist of this correctly it goes like this. <http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090414/1837144515.shtml> They narrowed the source of some offending mass emails, which identified the subjects' roommate as gay, down to an IP adress associated with his dorm. The emails were identified as coming from an Ubuntu system. They only found two Ubuntu users in the building. Of course the identifying of the email from an Ubuntu system could have beed spoofed as well. The bigger question is to whether the email was illegal in the first place and how poorly reasoned the search warrant application was. He was also suspected of grade changing which would have been a better cause for the action if they had sufficient evidence for a warrant. It looks like they really want to pin the grade changing on him and are using the emails as a reason to search his computer. < http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10218460-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
