Politech archive on U.S. v. Larry Benedict: http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=canandaigua
Photo essay: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/larry-benedict-investigation.html --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49132,00.html Where Were Suspect's Porn Pics? By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. Dec. 14, 2001 PST (Part 4 of a series. In the previous installment, federal and state police raided Larry Benedict's home and accused him of trading electronic child porn with Mikel Bolander.) CANANDAIGUA, New York -- The exchange between two child pornographers seems unusually damning as they discuss what kind of scanners, computers and software would work best to capture images of young boys. One person who signed the letter "LB" wrote: "Anything that you can see the fuzz on their ball (sic) do at high speed. Use your judgement. If your jeans get creamed just by looking at it then do it high speed." In a case brought by the federal government, prosecutors claim that "LB" stands for Larry Benedict, who was a senior engineer at Xerox at the time. Benedict has no criminal record, a raid of his home found no child porn magazines or videotapes, and he says he's innocent of the crime. [...] All the evidence against Benedict is in electronic form -- a search of his home turned up no physical evidence of child pornography. And all of the electronic evidence has been mangled in some way by the government -- either accidentally or willfully. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
