I worked in a computer forensics lab and we had several road kits. I labeled all the power supplies, devices, etc with a P-Touch so they didn't get mixed up on someone else's kit. It at least cleared up confusion as to what belongs to who when we went on big collections. :)

"Hello Mr. Yakamoto and welcome back to the GAP!"

I'd be willing to bet that 68% of all statistics are made up on the spot...

FTFY. The whole idea is that no warrant is issued. Otherwise, as normal, a prosecutor would need to show a judge probable cause to issue a warrant to seize the phone. This is happening at the scene where the judiciary is not a factor.

Well, it is relevant actually as one is legal, one is not. Currently, in most states I am aware of regarding enacted cell phone laws, hands free is ok. IANAL, but I would agree that evidence of the text messages would only be circumstantial and again while IANAL, enough circumstantial evidence can be shown in court to convince a jury of your arguments. Taking this piece of the pie out hinders that.

Check that, FUCK no. As a new NJ resident this is stupid. What if the text was "written" hands free using Siri, etc? How exactly do you know crash times? What if it wasn't a deadly accident and someone made a phone call right after. It could be argued that you were on the phone before the crash, depending on whose clock you time the accident on. What if your cellphone has a password? Can they then compel you at the scene to give it up? I wouldn't. :P

As a former IT worker working in computer forensics now, you now know how I feel watching CSI, Swordfish and the like.

Settle down there jerkwad. 3 feet? Where I live there's a gap between cross walks and stop lines.

Uh, depends on how this thing is calibrated. Is it set to go off if you are over the white line at a red? Then if I stopped 3-5ft long at a light, I'm getting a ticket for running it? Seems like a scam to me.

Because your service sucks? Nothing annoyed me more than TWC's pathetic excuse for cablemodem service. Second only to Optimum Online. While Verizon's customer service sucks something nasty, their FiOS service, in my opinion, is unmatched. But if they offered a gigabit service I'd hop on it like a college kid to free beer.

Except now he'd be the $27,586,004.06 man. Gotta love inflation!

I welcome my new Borg overlords.

Really? CALEA and Clipper chip are your citations? Clipper was already defunct by 1996 and CALEA only allows the access, with a proper warrant. Not the same as Patriot Act and similar.

Depending on the rules of a particular organization however, you could get fired for that. At my currently employer, you cannot use a personal email address for business purposes. Doing so leaves business records in the cloud and that's a no no. Since this is a public school, I'm guessing that it would also be a no no there too.

Sorry to nitpick here, but it irks me reading stuff like PIN number or BES server...