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the_archfiend Yeah, I know it's a bad thing to try to out people, especially if you're wrong. That doesn't quite justify what the Boston College campus police did to this guy, especially since there's no indication that a crime was committed.
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Date: 2009-04-22 10:18 pm (UTC)>Wait, so the evidence against this guy consists of: "he's good with computers so he >must be a criminal." What?!
Absolutely. Another case that had to do more with encryption than it did email was when Phil Zimmermann got busted for creating PGP, which as a form of encryption software was termed - wait for it - a "munition" which therefore put him in supposed violation of the Arms Export Control Act. The charges were dropped, but only after 3 years of investigatory BS.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann for some of the details.