more on Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: July 27, 2006 4:02:42 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: lauren () vortex com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd


> The decision includes a reliance on the defendant having control of
> the images in the cache by having "enlarged" at least one of the
> images in the cache -- they note that the defendant clicked on some
> thumbnail images that were in the cache to enlarge them. Except,
> that's not the way the web works ...

Dave, it's also the case that browsers may access pages through
"prefetch" behaviors without the knowledge of the user, and without
the user ever having seen the pages in question.  See my IP
discussion (from about a year ago) about this relating to Google
output results and Mozilla/Firefox browsers:

http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200506/msg00190.html

http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-people/200506/msg00212.html

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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   - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
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