Either that or they just break down your front door with a very heavy tool then take all your computer hardware and storage media away for forensic analysis (as a relative in Victoria regularly does). Same kind of thing really. Detectives have made arrests before based on evidence collected from computer hardware or boxes of disks thrown away. As has been explained to me before, even formatting a hard drive does not clear all the data.<br>
<br>Good to read that a criminal search warrant was used to authorize this online search. My guess is that they already had some pretty incriminating evidence where the files were. <br><br>Does raise an interesting legal question. Can the police here execute a search warrant in your physical company, to command access to search and inspect your online files or is the jurisdiction of a digital search limited to a single physical location that may contain some files.<br>
<br>Regards Roland<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 April 2010 18:56, Robert Hind <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@yinnar.com">robert@yinnar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><br></div>FBI agents targeting alleged criminal spammers last year
obtained a trove of incriminating documents from a suspect’s Google Docs
account, in what appears to be the first publicly acknowledged search warrant
benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud computing.
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