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1. addict+J6[view] [source] 2024-03-23 02:39:20
>>wut42+(OP)
There are different incidents here.

The first one where the police uploaded videos and wanted viewer information is absolutely egregious and makes me wonder how a court could authorize that.

The next one, which I didn’t fully understand, but appeared to be in response to a swatting incident where the culprit is believed to have watched a specific camera livestream and the police provided a lot of narrowing details (time period, certain other characteristics, etc) appears far more legitimate.

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2. ChuckM+Vc[view] [source] 2024-03-23 04:06:07
>>addict+J6
I certainly concur with this.

On the one hand, a narrow warrant that reveals a lot of people (classic example are warrants on motels to provide the names of everyone who checked in on a certain date, or was registered on a certain date) are certainly constitutional and have been upheld many times.

The first seems, odd.

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3. initpl+We[view] [source] 2024-03-23 04:33:37
>>ChuckM+Vc
The first is a somewhat clever attempt to unmask someone ann undercover investigator was already talking to. Police should have narrowed scope of the warrant by only asking for data on viewers within a narrow window after they sent the link.

Even better might have been to directly link to some service that they already control on a honeypot URL, and then gone after the ISP for customer details.

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4. ametra+7i[view] [source] 2024-03-23 05:21:43
>>initpl+We
Nah actually pretty dumb overall. And sending an open link when a private one looks the same is even more dumb.
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