[unification_fan]

Did they get to his browsing history because he's dumb and didn't even bother deleting it before they seized his PC, or because they have access to the ISP logs, or because Google just handed over the data?

Regardless it's creepy. Use DDG, a VPN, and never persist history if you're looking for shit like this on the web.

The people you can trust the least are not hackers or foreign agents (who don't really care about you) but your own government.

[blitzar]

Option A: they used a correlation exploit combining taps of 14 undersea cables, with the audio and video recordings from his laptop and phone and the devices of his 3 nearest neighbours and two of the the cars across the street, in conjunction with multiple vpn and tor exit nodes. From this they were able to detect some of the keystrokes and virtually reconstruct the image on screen using lidar and radar to intercept brainwaves.

Option B: they checked his browser history on his laptop.

[red-iron-pine]

option C: they just asked google and paid a small filing fee for the trouble

fairly routine thing for criminal proceedings

[UberFly]

What's creepy? I would definitely trust hackers or foreign government agents more if I was trying to screw over my own country. I guess at least. This guy just seems dumb.