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That's still an uphill battle, especially if stuff ain't hosted in the country you live in. Like I said, I'm not paranoid, so I don't have time to go to such l
by slantyyz 17y ago
That's still an uphill battle, especially if stuff ain't hosted in the country you live in.
Like I said, I'm not paranoid, so I don't have time to go to such lengths, but simply having physical access to a computer these days may not yield nearly as much evidence as it may have a decade ago.
- kjhgfghjklkjh 17y agoIt can yield a lot more useful evidence though. You can't get the guy for the iPhone thing - but you now have: Every website he has visited (are all those boys/girls/sheep over 18?) Every book/dvd/toy he has bought - did he declare state tax on all the stuff from Amazon. All his tax and business records. Everywhere he has been, everyone he has phoned,emailed, texted tweeted. The police could get all this from other sources - but imagine going to a judge and saying "we can't prove the phone was stolen - so can we check all tax records for 10years in the hope of getting him for something else?" But by getting a warrant for computers they have a fishing expedition for his whole life.
- slantyyz 17y agoThe only point I was trying to make, which may have been missed, is that it's much easier to keep what you're doing anonymous than it has been in the past, by: 1 - using encrypted volumes 2 - putting stuff in the cloud (encrypted where possible) 3 - using the anonymous browsing mode (which most popular browsers support)
- ErrantX 17y agoNo they do not. Not at all. If I'm looking at a computer I may keep an eye out for overtly illegal stuff, but you cannot go fishing. It's probably inadmissable for a start.