This is pretty funny. As you'll see in Part V, I got tipped off to the case by Crime Victims for a Just Society. As for the rest, well, I posted a bunch of court documents on wired.com; read them for yourself and make up your own mind.
-Declan On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:50:24PM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: > Declan McCullagh has been producing a one-sided series about a child > pornographer's supposedly unjust indictment, > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,49132,00.html. Of course > everything the pornographer says is taken as gospel, while the police > are filthy liars. In fact they have gone so far as to plant child porn > onto the computer in order to gain a conviction, in McCullagh's twisted > narrative. Missing from this tidy story is the cost-benefit analysis from > the part of the evil policeman. He has supposedly committed a felony > that could lead to decades in prison, just to avoid the difficulty of > handing the computer back with an apology, which happens all the time > in police work. > > The real issue for cypherpunks is of course whether there is any connection > between the child pornographer, Larry Benedict, and the local cypherpunk > pedophile who uses the pseudonym Eric Michael Cordian. Is it possible > that Cordian and Benedict are one and the same? And that Benedict would > use his cypherpunk connections as Cordian to get McCullagh to produce this > whitewash? How else did McCullagh get drawn into the seedy world of child > pornography trading rings? > > Enquiring minds want to know!