{"id":23032,"date":"2016-07-24T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23032"},"modified":"2016-10-05T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T18:08:47","slug":"n-d-ga-use-of-an-electronic-sniffer-to-find-a-target-computer-in-a-college-building-was-particular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23032","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Ga.: Use of an electronic &#8220;sniffer&#8221; to find a target computer in a college building was particular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police used an electronic \u201csniffer\u201d to attempt to find a MAC address of an operating computer in an Emory University building. \u201cThe affidavit described the plan to use a sniffer to \u2018identify the wireless device associated with the suspect MAC address, \u201c68:a3:c4:e2:6a:7e,\u201d that has been identified in this investigation.\u2019 (Id. at 9, Tr. at 34). The actual warrant, however, did not mention the sniffer; rather, it authorized the search of the entire building, without limitation and without reference to the sniffer.\u201d It led them to defendant\u2019s office. \u201cDefendant&#8217;s concerns about the risk that law enforcement would perform a general search of everyone and everything in the Rollins Building pursuant to the warrant are allayed by the fact that the affidavit describes how a sniffer works and indicated that the agents intended to use the sniffer to perform a focused, targeted search to locate the suspect device.\u201d The warrant was otherwise sufficiently particular to authorize the search. The good faith exception also applied. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leagle.com\/decision\/In%20FDCO%2020160713C83\/U.S.%20v.%20SULLIVAN\">United States v. Sullivan<\/a>, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90449 (N.D.Ga. May 25, 2016), adopted, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90329 (N.D. Ga. July 12, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police used an electronic \u201csniffer\u201d to attempt to find a MAC address of an operating computer in an Emory University building. \u201cThe affidavit described the plan to use a sniffer to \u2018identify the wireless device associated with the suspect MAC &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches","category-good-faith-exception","category-particularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23994,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23032\/revisions\/23994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}