Re: Holy Crap: Using a Command Prompt is 'SuspiciousBehavior'

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

I read the whole warrant and I think Paul has a point. The point about
using 2 operating systems is strange and irrelevant, but there's a lot
more in there than just accusing him of being technically sophisticated.
And while there's definitely the accusation in there of evidence of
crimes, I'm still not sure what he's accused of. Is it the outing
incident? Is it the accusation that he hacked into the BC grading system
to fix grades? Is it his "cache of approximately 200+ illegally
downloaded movies as well as music from the internet"? That he "jail
breaks" cell phones ("possibly stolen ones")? 

I suppose the lines about how sophisticated he is (the guy's name is
Riccardo F. Calixte) are in there to tell the Judge that he's capable of
the mass-e-mailing.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry.seltzer () ziffdavisenterprise com


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Paul Ferguson
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:54 PM
To: Paul M. Moriarty
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Holy Crap: Using a Command Prompt is
'SuspiciousBehavior'

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Paul M. Moriarty <pmm () igtc com> wrote:

> OK, the alleged crime is "Obtaining computer services by Fraud or
> Misrepresentation".  And it's pretty well spelled out to me in the
Basis
> of Probable Cause that there, is fact, probable cause.
>
> I'm not saying I personally agree with the law or the actions taken by
> the Boston College Police Dept.
>
> I am saying the that the EFF is using a lot of smoke mirrors to try
and
> play on the emotions of F/OSS and privacy proponents that some huge
> egregious miscarriage of justice is taking place.  I call bullshit.

I call bullshit on any premise built upon "..he seems guilty because he
is
a computer expert and he used some unknown computer foo..."

Witch hunting.

This whole thing stinks.

That should be scary, in and of itself.

- - ferg

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