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But I bet something led police to the hard drive in question in the first place. I wonder what "that" something was. In the U.S. you can be arrested and held fo
by BigChiefSmokem 10y ago
But I bet something led police to the hard drive in question in the first place. I wonder what "that" something was. In the U.S. you can be arrested and held for Reasonable Suspicion (or Probable Cause)
- michaelmrose 10y agoNot indefinitely
- onion2k 10y agoWhatever that was it clearly wasn't a criminal act or he'd have been charged for whatever it was. No further evidence has come to light after 16 months. That's far beyond "reasonable suspicion." If the police can't find evidence of a crime then this guy should be released, even if he's the reason they can't find it.
- chatterbeak 10y agoWhich means he probably just downloaded something. Not even resent it out.
- sjy 10y agoIncorrect – the defendant had an iPhone which contained indecent recordings of his niece, and had previously admitted to family members that he had a problem with child pronography, showing them a large collection on the computer that was connected to the hard drives he now claims to have forgotten how to decrypt. This is explained in government brief[1] which was linked in the article. [1] https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fedsrawls.pdf https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fedsrawls...
- grogenaut 10y agoNot indefinitely
- al_chemist 10y agoArticle mentions Freenet traffic detected at his computer. AFAIR Freenet is like BitTorrent, except nobody knows what you are downloading.
- vorticalbox 10y agoDoesn't mean it was illegal. Protecting ones privacy and data is not illegal and is no cause for suspicion. Just because they detected freenet or even tor that wouldn't be enough for a warrant. I wonder what evidence they did have for that warrentbin the first place.