Re:Be anonymous
by missingrib on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:12PM
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From what I remember about that case, he was one of 8 people who were on the network at the time, but the authorities told him he was the only one, leading to his quick confession. Meaning that if he had stuck to his guns and denied it there wouldn't have been a good way to prove he was the one who did it.
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Re:Be anonymous
by zxcvbn4038 on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:56AM
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It was indeed his immediate and voluntary confession that did him in. If he had not snitched on himself he would have just been a person of interest. He was one of several people who happened to be using Tor on the campus at the time, but that doesn’t mean anything, the person making the threat could have been someone in LA or Moscow or Beijing just looking to cause mischief and having no connection to the school at all. If he had kept his cool he probably would have gotten away with it.
No, it just means they couldn't have stopped digging at that point. Having dramatically reduced the search scope to a small number of people, they would have just needed to find one other small piece of evidence to narrow down the group suspects further.
Re:Be anonymous
by missingrib on Monday February 21, 2022 @10:42AM
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What type of evidence could they have found?
Re:Be anonymous
by aaaaaaaaata on Monday February 21, 2022 @02:38PM
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Depends how much of his shit they tossed, and for how long.
People he spoke to, witnesses they could....encourage....