What were the WSU and Dropbox search warrants and how do you think those fit into this?
rsbm
I've been thinking about this today, going over the pieces...
What if the WSU warrant is about computer usage but it didn't come from a CI? IMO JMO WSU has probably done some of their own due diligence review (or more than some), and maybe WSU identified a BK virtual hidey-hole. Maybe the warrant is for the computer or network access that belongs to WSU, but there might be things within the description of what is to be seized and from where that the court believes would be problematic, if revealed. So LE gets the warrant, gets access, runs the analytics, etc. and bingo, there is
his Dropbox - but completely not tied to him - so warrant to Dropbox... and from there are his secret Tinder and Yik Yak accounts and who knows what else...
I'm thinking he probably had a hidey-hole or two, both virtual and physical. Just for WS, I use a laptop no longer related to me, completely stripped twice now, VPN and my neighbor's WIFI. It wasn't intentional, just happened that I ended up with it again and kept it. But it's otherwise invisible in my life. I'm not committing a crime, but if I were? If LE didn't know about this laptop, and I was surfing on someone else's wireless, it doesn't leave an easy trail, esp if they find my actual laptop during a search. There's literally nothing else to tie them and this to me. can they find it? yes. would they eventually? yes. would it be easy? no. maybe that's what that warrant situation looks like? IDK jmo but another way to think about this.