OK, I get it. I think my BS detector is set to high today. I am just really suspicious that this guy that runs an large ISP can't at least wait until there are charges before all the uproar. I think if the cops came and seized my home PCs right now I would probably give them the time to look at them, realize there is nothing there, and give them back to me before freaking out completely. I would be wondering what was going on but probably not raising a defense fund.
You do realize that it is completely common for "looking" at them to take months. This is a big thing to people in this community, because the police will happily come and confiscate the tools you need to do your job, and not return them for months, years, or sometimes even ever, even in cases where it seems fairly straightforward to identify that the person has done nothing wrong. The police, and many of the policies surrounding this issue, often assume that the party is guilty, and also assume that seizure isn't a significant professional issue. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.