[Tfug] Boston Police Consider Using Linux to be Grounds for Suspicion

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

This is Not Good:

    Schneier on Security: Boston Police Consider Using Linux to be Ground
    for Suspicion
    http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/boston_police_c.html

Linked to the following article at EFF:
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Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of
Criminal Activity | Electronic Frontier Foundation

    On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an
    emergency motion to quash [pdf] and for the return of seized property
    on behalf of a Boston College computer science student whose
    computers, cell phone, and other property were seized as part of an
    investigation into who sent an e- mail to a school mailing list
    identifying another student as gay. The problem? Not only is there no
    indication that any crime was committed, the investigating officer
    argued that the computer expertise of the student itself supported a
    finding of probable cause to seize the student's property.

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More here with links:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-su
spicious


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