RE: Bizarre Story of the Day: 'Wrong IP Address' Leads toSha q Attack on I nnocent Family

[Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > I'm always perplexed by people's continued support of these types of
raids...

There are even worse examples:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1239017,00.asp (August 9, 2003)

"A recent Court of Appeals decision upheld the use of evidence obtained
by a 3rd-party hacker who was encouraged, indirectly perhaps, by the FBI
in a criminal case...An anonymous hacker, known in the decision only as
'Unknownuser,' hacked into the computer of the appellant, obtained
evidence of child pornography, and finked on the appellant to the FBI.
The District Court convicted the appellant, locked him up and threw away
the key."

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 

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