Echoing Mick's answers- talk to a lawyer, and your local Infragard is probably a good resource. Do not make assumptions as to what would or would not be of value to law enforcement, allow the investigators to make those decisions.
I am not a lawyer...but I would stop and document what I had done and what I thought I had found as soon as I discovered something potentially ugly and stop my investigation- then make contact with legal and/or law enforcement before proceeding. Jack On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Michael Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > You *need* to consult a lawyer. > > Also it helps if you can reach out to your local law enforcement > community *before* you get in such a situation. The local InfraGard > chapter is pretty good where I'm at so I was able to get to know the > agents who covered these cases. > > Excellent question, but I don't think there's a stock answer... > > - Mick > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Adrian Crenshaw<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> While doing research on anonymizing networks, what is the best policy to >> follow concerning inadvertently captured contraband (child porn, copyright >> infringing files, etc.)? In the case of child porn, the authorities should >> be notified under normal circumstances, but with anonymizing networks the >> origin of the files is hard if not impossible to determine. Would it be >> correct to just wipe the data after research on the network is done? As I >> understand it, even having it on your hard drive because of peripherally >> relevant research would be a crime. >> >> Adrian >> >> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
