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Originally Posted by HarryT
What sort of evidence did you have in mind? Forensic examination of computers is an extremely time-consuming and expensive process. Are there more practical alternatives?
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Let me give you an example.
A retired former CIA operative had an apartment in a hide rise building in Florida that overlooked the bay. One day, the door bell rang, and he opened the door and there were a dozen FBI agents, some with guns drawn and pointed at him. (You see they had checked on who lived there.)
He said something like uh oh, what is going on.
They said "You --name here-- are under arrest for illegal online child pornography trafficking and we have a warrant.
The gentleman said you could have knocked me over with a feather.
It turns out that he was using a unsecured wireless modem and a boat out in the bay about 2 city blocks away was attaching to it using an antenna gadget that concentrates wireless signals. (You can make one fairly easily.)
Of course to make sure the CIA guy wasn't in on it, they checked out his computer, etc. It turns out that child porn people also need a lot of photos to thumb through as well as computer screens, but this might be changing with the advent of tablets.
The gentleman was cleared.
Now if the FBI knocks on my door with a warrant, and comes in and exaimes my computers and my CDs and DVDs, etc., and finds pirated movies, music, and other stuff, then they have me.
Otherwise they only have a ***** lead ***** on a possible problem.
They need to have to do their due diligence and that is before a suit is filed. The crime must be proven and
if that is too darned hard, well that is too bad.