While the initial allegations of this article are pretty sad (involving a student allegedly sending a potentially libelous email to a campus email distro list), the trail of evidence stated to lead authorities to their suspect is weak at best, and ludicrous at worst.

Some gems from the story:

• “CS Major who is considered a master of the trade” (yet couldn’t mask a sent email? This is trivial for anyone who understands email)
• “Two different operating systems to hide his illegal activities … the regular B.C. operating system and the other is a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on”. Wow. The college has their own OS? And a command prompt is used to hide?

It seems like after his stuff was seized, many pirated movies, software were found (there’s more incrimination in the article). From the looks of it, they were just looking for a reason to target this student – but this looks like a pretty weak case.