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Feb. 22nd, 2007 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingFormer California judge gets 27 months in prison for possession of child pornography.
The kicker: He was caught because somebody broke into his PC, found the images, and reported him to the police.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. When the police break into your stuff without cause and find evidence of a crime, it's inadmissable because you have a right to privacy - but when someone who *isn't* a cop breaks in to your computer or your house or you car, in the process of committing a crime themselves, and then calls the cops, it's okay? This does not seem to me like a good rule.
Of course, if it had been murder instead of possession of child porn, and the hacker had been a burglar who found a body, I wouldn't have a problem with it at all. Hmm.
The kicker: He was caught because somebody broke into his PC, found the images, and reported him to the police.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. When the police break into your stuff without cause and find evidence of a crime, it's inadmissable because you have a right to privacy - but when someone who *isn't* a cop breaks in to your computer or your house or you car, in the process of committing a crime themselves, and then calls the cops, it's okay? This does not seem to me like a good rule.
Of course, if it had been murder instead of possession of child porn, and the hacker had been a burglar who found a body, I wouldn't have a problem with it at all. Hmm.