pmocek

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by pmocek 10y ago
> considering they are searching for one specific image That was not the case. They were authorized by warrant to search for the following, which I transcribed from a copy of the affidavit in support of application for warrant: A. Perso
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by pmocek 10y ago
> If [police who conducted the search] knew he was running an exit node They did know. Martin Kaste of National Public Radio [reported]( http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/
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by pmocek 10y ago
Common-carrier delivery service, like UPS, DHL, or FedEx are "aware of the "`type-of-content-that-may-be-in-the-box'." They are not held responsible for the actions of their clients of which they are unaware. The sam
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by pmocek 10y ago
> I believe that a package forwarding service may have some problems with the police from time to time. Yes, of course, they may. Police act in unethical or even unlawful manners from time to time. At question is not whether judges may
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by pmocek 10y ago
Imagine that police got a tip from some clearinghouse about contraband someone else claimed to have received via FedEx delivery of a sealed container, so they convinced a judge to authorize them to go into the FedEx depot to search for and
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by pmocek 10y ago
Your assertion was based on the flawed premise that police observed a violation of law in this case. I have seen no indication that they saw such. They reportedly acted on a fourth-party tip about a third party claim that an unknown perso
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by pmocek 10y ago
see also: - https://twitter.com/SeattlePrivacy/status/716460499106340864 - https://twitter.com/jdormansteele/status/716807343988715521
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by pmocek 10y ago
> If the police see the law being broken, they have an obligation to investigate I have seen no reporting--not even in Detective Daljit Gill's affidavit in support of her application for search warrant (which I've read)--that p
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by pmocek 10y ago
It's quite misleading to state only that "they had evidence of child pornography that traced back to his computer network." What they (Seattle Police Department) claim to have was a tip, from 4chan, filtered through a nationa
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by pmocek 10y ago
Right--a common-carrier delivery service, like UPS, DHL, or FedEx, only they cannot snoop into the clients' private business, and clients are by design anonymous.
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by pmocek 10y ago
Should they investigate libraries and coffee shops as well? How about the offices of businesses that offer VPN-based proxy services? Homes of those businesses' staff?
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by pmocek 10y ago
Anyone savvy enough to [run a Tor exit node]( https://blog.torproject.org/running-exit-node ) to obscure his or her network traffic could more easily do so by using [Tor Browser]( https://www.torproject.org/pro
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by pmocek 11y ago
We do, but all that is there now is a single blog post: http://seacop.org/on-the-occasional-difference-between-polic...
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by pmocek 11y ago
I'm one of the subjects of the article. Regarding the 2009 incident at ABQ: I was acquitted of all criminal charges by a jury in 2011. The trial ran two days, during which I did not testify and presented no evidence. Bizarrely, the
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by pmocek 14y ago
GoDaddy's service is non-exceptional, their Web UI is clearly focused more on up-sales than on helping customers get work done, their [advertisements are sexist][1], their [attempts to police the Internet][2] are an affront to free speech,
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by pmocek 15y ago
When I run dropship with a file containing the JSON you quoted, it prints, "('Oops, blocks are not known: %s', [u'8_dUpdzZPyca0BOl7oT0laNtqE8VLgof7EZGNFsMENY'])".