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more on Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:06:22 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Brock N. Meeks" <bmeeks () cox net> Date: July 27, 2006 5:17:35 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] more on Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd I'm glad that Lauren brought this up. I'm certainly no lawyer, but I'vecovered enough trials to have learned a thing or two. And it seems to me that any defense attorney could reasonable argue that any such cached images
can't be attributed to his client with any certainty.Unless the accused says, "this laptop has never, ever been used by anyone else and has never been out of my possession," how can any court of law say with any degree of certainty that anything in a browser cache was looked at
by the owner of the laptop?!Perhaps it was his twisted brother or his demented boss, before passing the
laptop on to him (at MSNBC, where I used to work, for example, we were routinely given laptops that had been used by four or five others, especially when we went on field assignments). Under this ruling, am I now responsible for my brother's or boss's or co-workers cache? --Brock On 7/27/06 4:03 PM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: July 27, 2006 4:02:42 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Re: [IP] more on Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'dThe decision includes a reliance on the defendant having control of the images in the cache by having "enlarged" at least one of the images in the cache -- they note that the defendant clicked on some thumbnail images that were in the cache to enlarge them. Except, that's not the way the web works ...Dave, it's also the case that browsers may access pages through "prefetch" behaviors without the knowledge of the user, and without the user ever having seen the pages in question. See my IP discussion (from about a year ago) about this relating to Google output results and Mozilla/Firefox browsers:http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200506/ msg00190.htmlhttp://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200506/ msg00212.html--Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as bmeeks () cox net To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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