SnooperDuper
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...had-relationship-with-bosma-accused-1.1399734
"Carbone said Babcock was known to be involved in the sex-trade business as an internet escort for several months prior to her disappearance, but he added that, as far as he knew, Millard was not involved in the sex-trade business."
That quote comes from so early in the investigation, less than a month after TB's murder, that I would not at all be surprised if LE subsequently found information to indicate DM was in fact involved in LB's sex trade activities, if only to take the cash she earned from prostitution and exchange it for drugs.
In other words, that's not convincing proof that DM was not involved in prostitution. (Which is apparently legal anyway.)
Also, The quote was not that it was one of the the biggest data seizures, but one of the biggest computer seizures, I don't think that you have to be a computer expert to know that there is a difference between an actual computer and data stored on a disk or thumbdrive. So if it was actually one of the biggest data seizures (again, hard to believe in this day and age, when other busts in computer crimes mine insane amounts of data), then it was a misquote or misspoken, which is what I have been wondering all along.
This case probably does not involve the most data, or the most devices, but may involve the most electronic device or activity related warrants/production orders (and therefore seizures). Lots of opportunity for DP to get stuff tossed out, as there will have been warrant after warrant filed.
Any references on what constitutes the previous largest data seizures in Ontario criminal history, then, if we can't find what constitutes the largest computer seizures?
I don't think that will be relevant. I think this case will be outstanding as having a very high number of warrants relating to electronic devices and activity. Not the most data, not the most computers. The most warrants related to electronic devices and media.
Consider, in a child *advertiser censored* case you only need one warrant to scoop up everything from the computer to any storage media to any manuals/software to the piece of paper with a password scribbled on it.
However in dealing with a smartphone you need multiple warrants to cover all the functionality and data of the device: one for the device/contents/adaptors/cards, one for the gps data for the device that comes from the network provider, one for a wiretap, I'm sure another for data like SMS messages because that's a bit different, there will be both historical (like gps) and ongoing (like wiretap) SMS data available. And so on.