Yes but there still has to be the right to defend yourself. If you take away the means by which I can pay lawyers, my funds, then I can't get the best legal representation. Therefore the prosecution is already convicting you before the trial even commences. This was already addressed by SCOTUS earlier this year and it's sad that it went the way it did. It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty and I could see seizing them after trial but not before or at least the judge allowing the guy to pay for his defense. In this case the judge already allowed the bitcoins to be auctioned but there's the sense here of convicting before any adjudication has actually been done. That really needs to be fixed in the legal system.

No, they're the government's witness. If agents committed perjury themselves on the stand that's a different matter. That's why we have judges and ultimately they can exclude testimony/evidence based on the credibility of the witnesses or evidence that they affirm is true. What frosts my cornflakes is that the Prosecutors have a conflict of interest here in seizing and selling assets that were DPR's, the bitcoins, before the trial even commenced. The proceeds of which wound up in the government coffers supporting the prosecution. That alone should have been prohibited by the judge in the case so it remains to be seen how these holes in the evidence trail will be handled. IMO this guy is still fucked.

Get your lazy butts out there and put those cameras up! And while you're at it clean up your room, it looks like a pig stye!

"All people are colored. Red, white, yellow, brown and black. There's no color Negro in the Crayola box" - Redd Foxx

Yeah RIP Marge Schott and Jimmy the Greek..

Counterpoint: people who have the most to gain from racist propaganda and muckraking are black "leaders." See: Al Sharpton, Eric Holder and Jesse Jackson.

Actually there's a lot of people who want to get out of the US. The Southwest seems to have the most so it's not just a Texas thing.

Wow the 1950s called, they want their racist rhetoric back. You must be an Eric Holder nutswinger.

I'd go for that as long as we put one along the entire eastern seaboard from DC North and California as well.

We're first bitches! Shit if you're sick, Dallas has like a billion hospitals and new ones going up where we don't need any. The Healthcare economy is going to love Ebola!

Do you warn people in your conversations that they are being recorded? Do you include a recording notification, a beep, while the conversation is going on? No? Then you'll probably have a knock on the door by the feds if you live in the US for violating wiretapping laws.

If they developed it it's owned by the US public presumably. If they bought it from one of the trustworthy vendors out there then they probably just have a license.

If you don't trust your kids then you have a more serious issue. You can see if there's a problem just by looking at the phone bill. Kids will be kids but you have to lead by example so they don't get themselves into a situation that could compromise their privacy or security.

Uh Law enforcement wouldn't use this, they have their own tools. Parents monitoring their kids? Plausible but it's also probably used by suspicious spouses to catch their partner in the act. It's an inevitable fact that since smart phones have become so ubiquitous now that this tool didn't show up on the radar sooner. What seems hypocritical to me in the case is that this guy sells a product that covers quite a bit of what Apple and Google do to a large extent already; track you. Of course their purposes are for "system quality" and "targeted ads" but there's still a substantial amount of metadata collected and cataloged. This guy just goes one step further and enables some features that obviously the government doesn't want you to have so they can monopolize the nefarious practices.

How about finding all of those guns that went south of the border first? This kind of case is just noise to distract us from the other shit the DoJ has fucked up for nearly 6 years.