Susan Brenner discusses an aspect of the search warrant and inspection of computer belonging to David C. Kernell, the young man who was subsequently convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s e-mail account:
A recent decision from a federal district court addresses an issue I hadn’t seen before: whether searching malware on the suspect’s computer was outside the scope of the search warrant issued for that computer. It seems a narrow issue, and unfortunately the opinion issued in the case doesn’t tell us a whole lot about what happened; but I thought the issue was worth writing about, if only to note that it arose.
Read excerpts from the court record and her commentary on Cyb3rcrim3.