BrianLaws
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:53 pm Post subject: Don't Click On That! You Could Go To PRISON! |
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I recently read a story that should scare the HELL out of us, because it could easily be you next!
CLICK HERE --> News Story
You are guilty now until you prove yourself innocent, we have lost our legal rights! If you already clicked the above link to read the story, you could have criminal charges brought against you if I would have directed you to one of those FBI sting links. How you ask? Because in the news story it talks about people who are charged with illegal activity just by clicking on a link. The above news link is somewhat hidden and if the above link had been to something illegal like mentioned within the news article, simply you clicking on that link by mistake or not can get you in trouble. If I would have had you redirected to an illegal link using tinyurl.com or other free redirect sites you could also be charged. It's a very interesting story and here are some of the quotes that should scare all of us!
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| When asked what would stop the FBI from expanding its hyperlink sting operation, Harvey Silverglate, a longtime criminal defense lawyer in Cambridge, Mass. and author of a forthcoming book on the Justice Department, replied: "Because the courts have been so narrow in their definition of 'entrapment,' and so expansive in their definition of 'probable cause,' there is nothing to stop the Feds from acting as you posit." |
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The defendant in that case, Travis Carter, suggested that any of the neighbors could be using his wireless network. (The public defender's office even sent out an investigator who confirmed that dozens of homes were within Wi-Fi range.)
But the magistrate judge ruled that even the possibilities of spoofing or other users of an open Wi-Fi connection "would not have negated a substantial basis for concluding that there was probable cause to believe that evidence of child pornography would be found on the premises to be searched." Translated, that means the search warrant was valid. |
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| While it might seem that merely clicking on a link wouldn't be enough to justify a search warrant, courts have ruled otherwise. On March 6, U.S. District Judge Roger Hunt in Nevada agreed with a magistrate judge that the hyperlink-sting operation constituted sufficient probable cause to justify giving the FBI its search warrant. |
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When anyone visited the upload.sytes.net site, the FBI recorded the Internet Protocol address of the remote computer. There's no evidence the referring site was recorded as well, meaning the FBI couldn't tell if the visitor found the links through Ranchi or another source such as an e-mail message.
With the logs revealing those allegedly incriminating IP addresses in hand, the FBI sent administrative subpoenas to the relevant Internet service provider to learn the identity of the person whose name was on the account--and then obtained search warrants for dawn raids. |
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