Posted on 10/24/2013 6:14:50 PM PDT by markomalley
...and based on the new definition of mentally deficient, or terrorist, there go your guns, too.
The Judge decided to err on the side of evidence preservation, which I’m not sure is a good idea. The act of “erring” might be evidence of the Judge being an idiot, so we’ll see. I bet most Judges are not learned in the ways of “hacking” vs “cracking.”
Solution is propose an independent 3rd party analyze the drive. Obviously the defendant is in a like business and it would be bad if his competitor (plaintiff) had a look at his future work, or even past work non-related.
They cannot fish around like that. Shame on the judge, but even more shame on the defendant and his lawyer for not putting up an adequate defense. What was this guy, a $60 an hour attorney?
Luckily Obama nullifies the Constitution. So they can seize anything anytime.
Everybody is forgetting ..... What did the defense lawyer do?
This is not new territory for this type of civil action. I’ve been on all 3 sides of this type of problem. As the ‘company’, as the ‘consultant’ and as an employee.
Apparently the Defense did not do much of anything. The novelty of this seems to be, “Does declaring oneself a ‘hacker’ impute a likelihood of malfeasance, even in the absence of a history of behavior?” I have a feeling this is going to be shredded on appeal.
Read this story carefully and then reflect on the fact that these are civilian companies writing code for security of electricity plants.
Makes one all warm & fuzzy, don’t it? /s
Besides, if he was a real Hacker, Molten Thermite would have been burning thru those disks as they entered the premises.
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