The latest example I know of happening is the seizing of the laptops of a blogger who runs a climate-science related website. His blog was one of the handful that the 'climategate' links were posted on.
So the outcome was that a warrant was given to search his house, 6 armed officers entered, took two laptops and left (to my knowledge, they still haven't been returned). He wasn't charged with a crime or wasn't a suspect in a crime, he merely had a link posted in a wordpress-hosted blog that he runs by the person that distributed the zip file containing the emails.
It's pretty bad that you can lose hardware and have it inspected by unknown persons for unknown reasons simply because you had an anonymous poster put something on your blog.
This story, to me, really brought it home that the biggest threat to computer privacy probably isn't theft but rather falling foul of a political position.
So the outcome was that a warrant was given to search his house, 6 armed officers entered, took two laptops and left (to my knowledge, they still haven't been returned). He wasn't charged with a crime or wasn't a suspect in a crime, he merely had a link posted in a wordpress-hosted blog that he runs by the person that distributed the zip file containing the emails.
It's pretty bad that you can lose hardware and have it inspected by unknown persons for unknown reasons simply because you had an anonymous poster put something on your blog.
This story, to me, really brought it home that the biggest threat to computer privacy probably isn't theft but rather falling foul of a political position.
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