> Much of Hogan's apartment was a clutter of screens, hard drives and keyboards — which the FBI confiscated.
That must have been some very advanced and dangerous looking screens and keyboards.
Why do we still accept this kind of confiscation of unrelated goods, while throwing big objections if the police had confiscated jewelery, clothes, or anything other non-connected but expensive items? By now, for all the tons of electronic items confiscated during raids, has any single screen or keyboard ever been part of the evidence provided to a court?
I'm sure a lot of laptop computers containing screens and keyboards have been used as evidence. It may be a little too much to ask FBI agents to only take that which contains data, when it's not necessarily always completely apparent.
Indeed. Newer computers can look like a plain old monitor and have an entire system onboard. This is typically obvious when it's a mac, but would an FBI agent pick out this System76 computer as not being "just a monitor"? Who knows
That must have been some very advanced and dangerous looking screens and keyboards.
Why do we still accept this kind of confiscation of unrelated goods, while throwing big objections if the police had confiscated jewelery, clothes, or anything other non-connected but expensive items? By now, for all the tons of electronic items confiscated during raids, has any single screen or keyboard ever been part of the evidence provided to a court?