ridiculous
April 18th, 2009 by mopeyhttp://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious
On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash [pdf] 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.
Good for the EFF (once again) for taking this on.
Tags: eff
May 4th, 2009 at 04:06
Some people in the local LUG claim the EFF is wrong on this one. I have not read the entire case, so I’ll reserve judgement. But jeez, if you just judged by the excerpts is looks ridiculous (I have a friend who claims they are taken out of context). Hopefully after school is out I’ll have a chance to read this.