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Thanks for the link. This was a good example. Do you (or anyone else) know of any other examples (good or bad) that I could take a look at? I'm putting together a course at the moment and these would be helpful to show.
Subpoenas too.
Thanks
Detectives who refer to computer systems as CPUs - this guy event wrote Central Processing Unit in full - just bug me. I lost track of how many times I've had to correct this terminology.
Including the manuals etc is a good one though. I always taught to seize these because users tend to write passwords in the margins.
In today's Boston Globe, there is an pertinent article on this case that reports on the defendant's challenge to the search warrant and that the Electronic Freedom Frontier is assisting him. Below is a link and a clip
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A senior at Boston College is locked in a legal battle with the school and the state, after authorities confiscated his computer, cellphone, and iPod as part of an investigation into alleged computer fraud.
The student, 21-year-old Riccardo Calixte of Mattapan, is challenging the warrant used by campus and State Police to authorize a search of his Chestnut Hill dorm room. In the affidavit seeking the warrant, campus police accused Calixte of hacking into the college computer network to change grades and of using a campus e-mail list to spread a rumor that a fellow student, one of Calixte's dorm mates, is gay. Massachusetts State Police participated in the search and brought Calixte's electronic gear to the state forensic lab for examination. Calixte has not been charged with any crime.
EFF lawyers argued that police had insufficient evidence of computer fraud to justify a warrant, and that spreading rumors over the Internet is not a crime. "This scope of the seizure supports the inevitable conclusion that this investigation is a fishing expedition," wrote EFF lawyers in a motion seeking dismissal of the warrant in Newton District Court.
So really, according to the article, the affidavit to obtain the warrant is flawed not the actual warrant. While this might void the warrant, it does not cast doubt on how the warrant is written. Correct?
From this
According to the search warrant affidavit, submitted by Boston College police Detective Kevin Christopher, campus police were called in January to settle a dispute between Calixte and a dorm mate, who later accused Calixte of hacking into the campus computer network to change other students' grades. The accuser also said his own computer no longer worked properly and he suspected Calixte of sabotaging it. He also accused Calixte of possessing movies and music illegally downloaded from the Internet, and of setting up student computers to prevent the detection of illegal materials on their hard drives.
It seems to me more like a five years old kid telling Mom that Rick said foul words….
…one thing is washing his mouth with soap, and another one is seizing all his appliances.
I am also wondering about the nature of the TWO OS, allegedly used, the ones described as
One is the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt command s on.
the second does look irregular, I mean why having a black screen with white text? 😯
IF Mr. Calixte actually did everything that was reported, he must be a genius, since
<other inmate> told me that since his problems with Mr. Calixte his brand new computer has crashed and he suspect's Mr. Calixte to be responsible.
Mr. Calixte has access into <other inmate>'s computer as he set it up for him where they were friends and he knows the password. The computer has been looked at by several experts and none of them can resolve the problem.
Possibly the same experts that had the idea of the FAT talking to the CPU
In order to manage the inventory of all stored files many operating systems also mantain a "File Allocation Table" (FAT) which tells the CPU where all data is stored.
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