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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.'"
I thought it was about a reasonable suspicion of committing a crime, that sort of thing?
If I call myself a sex god do they do diligence on that one too?
So a title implies intent?! This looks like the steepest slope coated in vasteline ever.
That's not the scariest part. If you are a hacker and you have a penis, you MIGHT BE a rapist or child molester!
Good for those 9/11 terrorists blowing up the building!
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