Re:The Rise and Fall of Silk Road
by fweespeech on Tuesday April 28, 2015 @05:54PM
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The problem is, they aren't really proving they are "solicited". They are just proving they were sent to an address.
I can ship 5 packages to your address and it'd trigger the search is the standard of evidence they are using. Its how people have been swatted.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/06/the-fly-has-been-swatted/
http://www.vice.com/read/i-interviewed-the-fraudster-who-fra...
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/07/mail-from-the-velvet-cybe...
The only reason he didn't get swatted again was because he called the police because before it happened because he was monitoring the people. [Hint: He has been swatted before]
This is precisely why this "standard of evidence" is such bullshit. It can be used to harass anyone and is.
The original article is annoyingly unclear, but I'm pretty sure that's the case with Green as well. The Feds didn't send a fake package, they just followed a package they'd interecpted.
I don't really think there's a problem with this practice. Having a bunch of packages with drugs addressed to particular residence seems like reasonable grounds to get a search warrant for that residence.