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Re:The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server by fleitz on Saturday September 06, 2014 @12:47AM (#8277565)
They weren't lock picking they were just putting miscellaneous bits of metal in his door lock.
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Re:The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server by jasonwocky on Saturday September 06, 2014 @10:31AM (#8278418)
That's very much the point. The FBI can make an argument that they weren't trying to gain access (since a real attempt to gain access would have looked different from "entering miscellaneous strings"). They were trying to see what the system did when authorization attempts failed. As far as I know, there's no law against that. It's similar to going through a suspect's trash.
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Re:The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday September 06, 2014 @01:20PM (#8278849)
If they weren't trying to gain access, what were they trying to do? Buy drugs? I don't buy the trash analogy.
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Re:The FBI Says How It ‘Legally’ Pinpointed Silk Road’s Server by fleitz on Sunday September 07, 2014 @07:05AM (#8280771)
Umm... since when is guessing passwords not an attempt to gain access?
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