This kind of ignorance is very dangerous. Every now and then, I spend time at Bees Knees Rest in Morrisville, and I used to proudly sport my Ubuntu label on my laptop. The other day, I was casually chatting with the woman who owns that place and she referred to me as the guy who breaks into computers and she jokingly asked me if her files on her computer were safe. This is because, in the past, I informed her that her access point was totally open, with no password protection, and gave her a lecture about how to protect herself, and asked her as to who was helping her. If I remember, this is a 3rd or 4th such case in Boston - the Charly subway case, and an MIT undergrad got her head almost blown away at Logan because she was wearing some T-shirt with flashing leds to impress recruiters on a career day at MIT. regards, -balu
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Kevin Thorley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
