And so the courts should have chucked this out (full court ruling here):
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docs.justia.com/cases/fe ··· 9-12.pdfThis is one reason why in Alberta we have ICE units (Integrated Child Exploitation) as we like charges like this to stick and get the creeps behind bars so children are safe, but this isn't the land of 'I was a traffic cop for 10 years', these are people who are trained in this sort of work and know the laws and how courts work (they also know you just don't trust someone else's investigation and they do their own work to ensure and properly document the crime). The sad part about this is if you read the court document this investigation went through a number of different groups who should have known better on how to proceed but it turned into a fail.
What is funny is Agent Logan really only used basic skills and tools to find said system.
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Agent Logan used a software program, RoundUp, to search for any computers located in Washington state sharing known child pornography on the Gnutella file-sharing network
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