The sheer number of idiotic things going on here is astounding. If ignorance of the law is no excuse in committing a crime, isn’t ignorance of technology in arresting someone for using technology you don’t understand while not committing a crime even worse?
On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash 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.
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Aside from the remarkable overreach by campus and state police in trying to paint a student as suspicious in part because he can navigate a non-Windows computer environment, nothing cited in the warrant application could possibly constitute the cited criminal offenses. There are no assertions that a commercial (i.e. for pay) commercial service was defrauded, a necessary element of any “Obtaining computer services by Fraud or Misrepresentation” allegation. Similarly, the investigating officer doesn’t explain how sending an e-mail to a campus mailing list might constitute “unauthorized access to a computer system.”
On a vaguely related topic, your company’s website will destroy your life and your dog’s life and your Aunt Tilly’s goldfish’s life if you don’t buy this guy’s package, whatever it is. As he says, “Let me show you how dead serious I am.” And he means it!
Both found by Brother Uncle Don who is now too terrified to turn on his computer anymore because he knows how to use command prompts.
-With apologies to Mel Brooks.-
“Don’t be stupid be a smarty, come und join the Linux Party….”
Only that my brother is wrong: I use a Mac with it’s GUI, not Linux.
Haven’t used the command prompt for anything in years.
#22 you’re missing such great pleasures. GUIs are for people who don’t know what they’re doing
Fish and Richardson – good firm. Very smart on the computer/technology front. Good people to have on your corner in this sort of thing.
It’s funny how I don’t recall “having book smarts” as a tangible element for probable cause for a seizure. Perhaps I missed that case, Commonwealth v. Dr. Smartypants.
Mass. colleges aren’t big on free speech.
Not to sound like some sort of spell checker or anything, but y’all need to learn how to spell MORON rather than MORAN. The former is an unintelligent person. The latter was Richie Cunningham’s sister on “Happy Days”.
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Sheesh, what a lot of hot air over calling someone gay. Anyone would think it’s an insult.
#3 – Well it sure looks like a young George Bush Senior is in the background.
Its probably just his grandfather dropping off a check for a few million to Hitler.
That was the Kennedys.
#26: So, you don’t know the Interwebitube meme, moran? Google it.
Keeping in mind, that the NAZI’s were Socialists (now called left winger progressive or liberals…
and that in our modern day, they also call people protesting their children being born in $70,000+ debt, Terrorists (Dep’t of Homeland Security – who, as part of the Cabinet, are doing things the fearless leader claims he had no idea – like his ‘former’ minister)…
With those things in mind, consider that THEY (mentioned above) do not believe in facts…
They only believe in name calling, slander, lying and mis-stating… (No, I am actually not talking about the media, at this time).
I left Micro-soft (most apt name in history) after learning how to almost fix it… then, they brought out Vista…
Strange… They also brought out the Downgrade back from Vista, to XP, and Promise to allow the same for whatever they will call the backend to IE8…
This is all Political slander (seeded by people that are … (sorry Charly) Socialists… like those presented in the picture above.
Pointing out that someone is gay or homosexual, shouldn’t be a crime. Especially since so many gays want to get married and receive benefits, just because they are gay. And they got this chip on their shoulder about it.
But it should be a crime to encourage or induce any retaliations against gays on some list. Apparently, some closet gays in local government, are concerned their names might end up on some list (becoming blacklisted), if they allowed such lists to ever exist. But this should be a violation of Freedom of Speech rights. They have lists of freed Sexual Offenders, to protect kids from those who served their time, but may not have reformed (seems unfair to always assume they haven’t). But not allow lists of gays, who might end up as Judges, who decide sexual perversion cases. Cause they might not be voted into office, by the major of people, who aren’t gay. Got to protect the careers of this crummy 3%, against the concerns of the 97%.
Wow! I wish there was similar legal concern about preserving the jobs of the rest of us straights!
Tell a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth. – Joseph Goebbels
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