Police arrest man for child pornography after tipoff from burglars

[The Minsky Moment]

Should evidence obtained as a result of a crime be used like this? If so, what prevents the police from using "independent" criminals (burglars, hackers, etc.) to obtain evidence against people they would not be otherwise able to get?

Off the top of my head, exclusion of the evidence obtained, and a civil lawsuit against the police.

[Eddie Teach]

FBI is going to love this thread.

There's absolutely no evidence that anyone in this thread is involved in selling nuclear secrets to Iran.

[Ideologue]

If I'm not an FBI watchlist already, I'd be amazed.  I talk all sorts of shit here and elsewhere.  I hope they like reading a lot of blather about comic books in between vague not-legally-threats.

[Neil]

Is it?  Huh, I always thought it was reasonably easy to make a Teller-Ulam.  (I mean, not like "make a car" easy, but compared to, say, building a modern aircraft.)

The materials are a problem.  The engineering is a problem.  It's not like you can just bolt an atom bomb to a case with a tamper and some tritrium and have it explode.