[bugglebeetle]

This scenario already happened with Jason Chen/Gizmodo and the iPhone 4G prototype that was left at a bar, and what happened is the cops raided his house and seized his stuff. You would think HN folks would at least remember that…

[joecool1029]

Not remotely the same thing, that was cops executing a search warrant signed by a judge. https://www.businessinsider.com/a-san-mateo-court-has-withdr...

[bugglebeetle]

You think WOTC couldn’t have found a friendly judge if the guy didn’t comply with their thugs? The judiciary in the US is just as corrupt as the police.

[JumpCrisscross]

> think WOTC couldn’t have found a friendly judge if the guy didn’t comply with their thugs

To randomly authorize a private search? No.

[bugglebeetle]

Oh please, they’re not going to present it like that but use the same spiel the Pinkertons used on this YouTuber about being part of a criminal conspiracy etc. Judges in the US issue spurious warrants all the time, not the least at the behest of corporations. The iPhone prototype was no less ridiculous.

[JumpCrisscross]

We’ll put aside the material differences between the iPhone/Gawker case, for instance, the reporter having knowingly purchased an object the seller found on a bar stool. What forcing due process also does is create a paper trail. That’s how Gawker got the warrant rescinded. It’s also notable that these miscarriages are newsworthy. I understand the comfort of conspiracies, but in this case, the lie of a corrupt judiciary does more of a corrupt cop’s work than the system’s failings themselves.