On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:06 PM, jonathan d p ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > hi. > > From the strictly outrageous news dept, because Expert users = suspicious > users, right? If it isn't Windows, then... it might be... bad! > > "On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency > motion to quash [pdf]and for the return of seized property on behalf of a > Boston College computer science student whose computers, cell phone, and > other property were seized as part of an investigation into who sent an > e-mail to a school mailing list identifying another student as gay. The > problem? Not only is there no indication that any crime was committed, the > investigating officer argued that the computer expertise of the student > itself supported a finding of probable cause to seize the student's > property." > > See: > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious > > I realize that the reported circumstances are quite vague, but a citation of > expertise as a reason for *probable cause*... seems a little questionable at > best. Anyway, YRO. >
I read about this on slashdot. After reading the actual application for the warrant (probably not the right term) it seemed like the BC police had a reasonable case. At least, they definitely had probably cause. Slashdot has the link for the various documents associated with the case Kevin
