Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights

An anonymous reader writes "As described on the DigitalBond blog, a security researcher was subjected to a court ordered search in which a lack of pre-notification was premised on his self description as a 'hacker.' From the court order, 'The tipping point for the Court comes from evidence that the defendants – in their own words – are hackers. By labeling themselves this way, they have essentially announced that they have the necessary computer skills and intent to simultaneously release the code publicly and conceal their role in that act.'"

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The blogspam is a crock of shit.

[Anonymous Coward]

This guy is suspected of stealing a company's proprietary code and planning to release it as open-source. The company asks a judge for a restraining order to shutdown the guy's site and to get a copy of the the guy's hard drives. The judge realizing that if this guy had warning could post the code to the internet anonymously AND erase the data from his hard drives with little effort, provides for no warning for the serving of the orders.
 
In other words, a computer savvy judge, something so many on Slashdot claim to want, understood what could be done and acted to prevent it. Be careful what you wish for, assholes, because you just might get it.