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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by mirimir on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:40PM (#13632189)
If he was using Freenet, there's no doubt that his node handled chunks of CP files, and that at least some of those chunks remain on the drive. Let's say that he never viewed any CP. Even then, can he be sure that investigators won't discover evidence that could be spun to demonstrate that he did view CP?

It is quite a quandary :(

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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by Natanael_L on Monday February 13, 2017 @03:59AM (#13634021)
If you didn't request it, your node won't hold decryption keys to the files.

Might not help him if they believe that the encrypted keyless fragments is enough (which would be a horrible legal argument).

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Re:Man jailed 16 months, and counting, for refusing to decry... by mirimir on Monday February 13, 2017 @09:10AM (#13635270)
That's true, of course.

But LEA are selecting nodes based on the hashes of those fragments. Many of them won't have cached CP fragments, but merely relayed them. But if his node did, prosecutors could argue that they've identified CP on his computer based on hashes, and have experts testify about reliability, etc. How many jurors would understand Freenet design?

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