[Tfug] Boston Police Consider Using Linux to be Grounds for Suspicion

[Jeffry Johnston]

I hope you voted for Ron Paul

Jeff


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming
<angussf at geoapps.com> wrote:
> This is Not Good:
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>    Schneier on Security: Boston Police Consider Using Linux to be Ground
>    for Suspicion
>    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/boston_police_c.html
>
> Linked to the following article at EFF:
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> Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of
> Criminal Activity | Electronic Frontier Foundation
>
>    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.
>
> --------- Included Stuff Ends ---------
> More here with links:
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-su
> spicious
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>
> In a related poll:
>    Are You a Terrorist? It's easy to find out! - Reason Magazine
>    http://reason.com/terroristquiz/
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