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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by ogre_codes on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:07PM (#25340213)
The fact that they were able to get a search warrant suggests they have some evidence pointing to her. The most obvious evidence is server logs.

It doesn't take a ton of expertise to set logging, most web services log access by default.

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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by tremon on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:19PM (#25340334)
I'd say the most obvious is an old e-mail sent to her containing the username and password. Do we know for certain that the judge who issued the warrant was aware that the same username/password was repeatedly issued to different persons?
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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by rascul on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:04PM (#25340735)
> The fact that they were able to get a search warrant suggests they have some evidence pointing to her.

Warrants do not require evidence, just a signature.

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