This is pretty funny. As you'll see in Part V, I got tipped off to the case by Crime Victims for a Just Society. As for the rest, well, I posted a bunch of court documents on wired.com; read them for yourself and make up your own mind. -Declan On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:50:24PM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
Declan McCullagh has been producing a one-sided series about a child pornographer's supposedly unjust indictment, http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49132,00.html. Of course everything the pornographer says is taken as gospel, while the police are filthy liars. In fact they have gone so far as to plant child porn onto the computer in order to gain a conviction, in McCullagh's twisted narrative. Missing from this tidy story is the cost-benefit analysis from the part of the evil policeman. He has supposedly committed a felony that could lead to decades in prison, just to avoid the difficulty of handing the computer back with an apology, which happens all the time in police work.
The real issue for cypherpunks is of course whether there is any connection between the child pornographer, Larry Benedict, and the local cypherpunk pedophile who uses the pseudonym Eric Michael Cordian. Is it possible that Cordian and Benedict are one and the same? And that Benedict would use his cypherpunk connections as Cordian to get McCullagh to produce this whitewash? How else did McCullagh get drawn into the seedy world of child pornography trading rings?
Enquiring minds want to know!