arstechnica.com — A man convicted of possessing child pornography argued that his unsecured wireless access point means that the evidence against him should have been thrown out. An appeals court disagrees, demonstrating why arguing that "my WiFi network was open" isn't a great legal strategy.
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Closed AccountApr 23, 2007
If the CDs were found in his room, then the wifi cannot be used, obviously.But generally speaking, there are a lot of people in this thread who believe that under normal circumstances, that defense cannot be used when it really can.
darkstar949Apr 23, 2007
@manova - I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me like it would depend as you may or may not be able to plead the fifth in that case - not sure though.
danc4498Apr 23, 2007
Story:"there's a twist: the Yahoo account used to send the message belonged to a Mr. Rob Ram, according to Yahoo's records. Perez had a roommate named Robert Ramos and an open WiFi connection"That's pretty f'd up. He was going to download all this child porn, then put the blame on his roommate for downloading it. Good thing the FBI does more than just check IP addresses and yahoo's "user submitted" facts.
Closed AccountApr 23, 2007
Because the source is always Malaysia, and our laws don't extend into other countries. Besides, it may not be illegal to have sex there at any age.Juts because we deem something immoral/illegal, doesn't mean other countries do.
macparrotApr 23, 2007
I find it amazing that all the people in this post saying, "what was the crime?" are being dugg up, and those saying because children were exploited and abused for this sicko's fantasies are being dugg down. I'm guessing the digg uppers aren't fathers or are members of NAMBLA.
stmillerApr 24, 2007
^But they got the search warrant because of the IM. Don't you see?
thetinguyApr 24, 2007
WTF? If someone makes a death threat on my phone am I responsible for it?
cyberdactylApr 24, 2007
Out of curiosity I read some other 'rickybennett' comments from other diggs. The comment here is graduate level English writing compared to his others.