OK, there must be a lot more paranoid people out there than I thought there were. I personally don't have a "runaway kit" stashed away. I will get right on that. So when that "mouth breather cop" won't believe you are innocent, your answer is to grab your stuff and go on the lamb for awhile? I am sure he will let you out to go to the bank, get your stuff, and leave town. I think you have seen way to many movies.
So if the cops show up at his door tomorrow and say "Here's all your stuff back, there was no evidence of a crime.", you are OK with this guys keeping the "defense fund"? Steve -----Original Message----- From: Peter Kristolaitis [mailto:alte...@alter3d.ca] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 3:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can. On 11/30/2012 04:01 PM, Naslund, Steve wrote: > I am a little concerned that this guy keeps a safe deposit box with > a burner phone and cash around. Is he a CIA agent? :) Anyone who DOESN'T have such things stashed away somewhere is, IMHO, incredibly naive and taking on quite a large amount of risk. The likelihood (and hope) is that you'll never need it. But on the off chance that you get f***ed by the legal system because of some power hungry, mouth-breather cop who can't/won't understand that you've done nothing wrong -- or worse, that you're easily provably within the law, but he "believes" that you're not and drags you through the process anyways -- you'll be very happy that you stashed away that old unlocked cell phone, old laptop, change of clothes and cash. I'm a (legal) firearms owner... up here in Canada, where some previous governments enacted extreme anti-gun legislation, that pretty much means that if I so much as sneeze in a way that a cop doesn't like, I can have my life ruined pretty damned fast (not quite, but really close). I wouldn't bet against me having an excrement-hitting-the-oscillator stash like this guy does. ;) (Note: I don't mean to imply that all cops are power hungry mouth-breathers intent on destroying the lives of citizens. Most cops are fundamentally good people and do a great job. But like every other profession, there ARE bad cops out there, and it's within the realm of possibility that you'll deal with one of them one day.) > Why would I donate to his legal defense when he has not been charged > yet? A little premature, no? > If you think that legal costs in a criminal case only start when you've been formally charged, you're grossly misinformed. At what point you personally decide to donate is one thing, but implying that someone doesn't need a defense fund prior to charges being laid is a bit naive about how the process works. - Pete
