I'd argue that whether or not Vosburgh himself is guilty is sort of beside the point. I call your attention to:
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Vosburgh faced four charges: clicking on an illegal hyperlink; knowingly destroying a hard drive and a thumb drive by physically damaging them when the FBI agents were outside his home; obstructing an FBI investigation by destroying the devices; and possessing a hard drive with two grainy thumbnail images of naked female minors (the youths weren't having sex, but their genitalia were visible).
The judge threw out the third count and the jury found him not guilty of the second. But Vosburgh was convicted of the first and last counts, which included clicking on the FBI's illicit hyperlink.
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Granted I'm not a legal expert, but it would appear to me that Vosburgh was charged and convicted of clicking on an illicit link (which is apparently a crime), with no further evidence provided than his ip in a logfile. Consider how easy it is to be duped into clicking a link to an unwanted page; I think pretty much all of us have been duped into visiting goatse or tubgirl, it's practically an internet rite of passage. Now imagine if doing that could result in jail time. See the problem here?
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