Reply to post: Re: Chris W Re: @ Condiment

Computing student jailed after failing to hand over crypto keys

Matt Bryant Silver badge
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Re: Chris W Re: @ Condiment

"....I don't see how that can apply. The crime had already been committed...." The DDoS had, but the threat of an armed attack on a member of the public had not been conclusively prevented. You could also argue that the little tw@ was keeping tools on his systems for use in future attacks already in the planning stage, which would give reasonable cause to search their contents.

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