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Interesting District Court Opinion About Whether Running Hash Values is a Search

By Corey Rayburnyung

Orin Kerr has some great coverage and analysis of a case out of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, U.S. v. Crist. From his very lengthy post:First, the facts. Crist is behind on his rent payments, and his landlord starts to evict him by hiring Sell to remove Crist's belongings and throw them away. Sell comes a cross Crist's computer, and he hands over the computer to his friend Hipple who he knows is looking for a computer. Hipple starts to look through the files, and he comes across child pornography: Hipple freaks out and calls the police. The police then conduct a warrantless forensic examination of the computer:In the forensic examination, Agent Buckwash used the following procedure. First, Agent Buckwash created an ?MD5 hash value? of Crist's hard drive...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).