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To: George from New England
Most computers will store the last week or twos worth of browsing as well as all the image files that are viewed.

That's not what the article implies. They didn't know who he was; they found him by working backwards from Expedia . That's a whole lot different from having a suspect and verifying he'd downloaded a map by looking at his cache.
# 29 by Ratatoskr
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Which means that Expedia keeps a record of citizens who use their site,
and what the citizen does on the site,
and provides those records to government agents.

Fine, in this case they caught a killer.
Still, I don't trust this weapon in the hands of corrupt men.

[derlauerer]

I don't trust this weapon in the hands of corrupt men.

Fair enough, but remember this: Every weapon is dangerous in the hands of a corrupt man (or woman, come to that).

It's not the weapon, whatever its nature or type, but the wielder of whom we should be wary.