Very much so.
Collateral damage or not, it’s exactly what the cops/Feds/etc will use against you.
“Your honor, we did a search for X but in the process of that legal search we found Y, and we’d like to add 15 more charges to this case.”
It can and will happen.
Yea, I've had some of that floating around in my mind after the influx of some of the less savoury explicit material. Perfect excuse for the man to justify a seizure of equipment.
Seizure of equipment and seizure of your sovereignty.
Here's a discussion thread that brings up some relevant points/arguments
A lot of lemmy users in that thread!
