Friday, September 23, 2011

Homeless Man and the Search Warrant

A homeless man in San Francisco was served with a search warrant for suscpicion of being part of the Hacker group Anonymous. What did they search? His shopping cart?
"Please sir, hand over your shopping card and box that you sleep in at night. We have a search warrant."
You bet the rookie cop probably got the job of frisking him.
It's pretty hard to imagine a homeless man being a hacker or cracker or black hat or who else he thinks other people are calling him. Do you think he hides a netbook under the papers in his cart? Or he has figured out a way to generate electricity when he pushes the cart around all day, hooked up the wheels to some dynamo or something, gathering electricity for the all night hackathon via some open Wifi connection.
Or do you just think he was a victim of identity theft?