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Archive for the ‘Search & Seizure’ Category

Judge: No cryptographic hash analysis sans warrant: “

It’s a search

In a case that could have important implications for law enforcement investigations throughout the US, a federal judge has ruled that the cryptographic fingerprinting of suspects’ hard drives constitutes a search for purposes of the Constitution.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

Germans seduce Jacqui over remote hacking of disks: “

Trojanised Home Sec comes home to infect Parliament

Is the UK Government about to turn world class hacker? It’s going to have to if the Germans succeed in getting their domestic programme of planting Trojans onto suspects computers adopted by the EU.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

EFF reveals vastly expanded search policy at US borders: “

Probable cause a thing of the past

In a move that could affect millions of people around the world, the US government has quietly relaxed a two-decade-old policy that limited the reading and copying of papers and electronic data carried by travelers crossing into American borders, according to recently released documents.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

Bill seeks guidelines for US laptop searches: “

Some rules for border agents, please

US border agents can still snatch and search your laptop, mobile phone, or hard drive without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. But a bill introduced in Congress last week may enforce some guidelines on how the inspection is done.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

Homeland Security: We can seize laptops for an indefinite period: “

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has concocted a remarkable new policy: It reserves the right to seize for an indefinite period of time laptops taken across the border.

A pair of DHS policies from last month say that Customs agents can routinely — as a matter of course …

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(Via The Iconoclast.)