By ODH’s reasoning the cops could have gone in guns drawn at every ISP that hosted the connection. Grabbed the log files and then went to the next stop.
But for some reason they didn’t. I wonder why?
ODH is a troll. I used to get into it with him pretty heavily on the eligibility threads but otherwise he is a fairly sensible poster.....establishing cover I suppose.
My patience is running thin, I'm going to exit this thread, it is Easter after all...I hope yours is a Happy one!
drawn at every ISP that hosted the connection.
According to the article, the ISP had been questioned, and had provided the address of the router from which the requests/data had passed. Of course, they know that ISPs are just service providers, and the law gives them protections as well, so your suggestion is silly.
On the other hand, most of the time when a router has been hosting child pornography, the computers in the house are the ones that were involved.
Even if they could secretly invade the guy's router and dump the information, and found that some other computer had been hooked to the router, it would still be likely that the offending computers were in the house.
They found out about the other computers as a result of serving the warrant on the house and going through the computers and router at that address. Just as they found out about the house by going to the ISP that hosted his connection.
You keep acting like this is some bizarre police action, when in fact it is simply following the evidence, something police do routinely. And yes, that means they question people that they find to be innocent, and those questions can lead them to the next clue.