Reply to post: Re: Pierre A doofus, with weak lawyers, but the law is broken

Computing student jailed after failing to hand over crypto keys

ElReg!comments!Pierre

Re: Pierre A doofus, with weak lawyers, but the law is broken

> I think you'll find that, not only would it put you in breach of laws relating to unauthorised access (to the LAN in this case)

Yeah well, that's the whole point of this though experiment, so I'll give you that

> you would be leaving a very easily traceable piece of hardware for the Police to use as evidence

Really? I won't even mention bitcoins because I probably couldn't be arsed, but last time I checked cash was quite hard to trace. There's a a few shops around where I can physically buy a Pi without being traced or even recorded on CCTV (well, looping CCTV systems don't count when the device won't be discovered for a few month -and that's if I'm out of luck). Preferably 100-200km away from home just in case the temp behind the counter would recognise me. Or I could buy (cash) a virtual credit card and buy it over the 'net, having it delivered somewhere almost random with a false name: in _some_ delivery points they ask you for real ID but in others anything laminated will do.

FACEPALM right back at you, amateur ;-)

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