Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods

nonprofiteer writes "Mark Jensen's home computer revealed Internet searches for botulism, poisoning, pipe bombs and mercury fulminate. A website was visited that explained how to reverse the polarity of a swimming pool — the Jensens had a pool — by switching the wires around, likening the result to the 4th of July. The State pointed out the absence of Internet searches on topics like separation, divorce, child custody or marital property. Julie Jensen died as a result of ethylene glycol in her system, an ingredient found in antifreeze. On the morning of her death, someone attempted to 'double-delete' (apparently unsuccessfully) the computer's browsing history, which included a search for 'ethylene glycol poisoning.'" What if searches for devious, undetectable methods of murder were in everyone's history?

Police Doing Actual Police Work?

[BondGamer]

How awful is it that detectives were able to discover that her husband searched for information on the exact thing that killed her shortly before her death, along with other methods of killing someone. On top of that he attempted to delete traces of it. This is an invasion of piracy.

Re:Police Doing Actual Police Work?

[Anonymous Coward]

Arrrrrrrrgggghhhh!!! He be right! This indeed be an invasion of piracy! Give us all yer booty! Arrrrrrrgh!

Polarity?

[Brian Feldman]

How the fuck does a swimming pool have a polarity?

Re:timothy...

[a_nonamiss]

Now, I can kill someone using a devious, undetectable way. When they find my search history, my defense will be that I clicked on an unmarked slashdot link.

Re:Polarity?

[imadork]

It's one of those new Star Trek swimming pools. If you ever need to fix it, switching the polarity is risky, but it just might work!

Re:Rule number one for breaking any law

[Anonymous Coward]

May God have mercy on any poor son of a bitch who has to review two years my web history.

Re:Polarity?

[polymeris]

How the fuck does a swimming pool have a polarity?

Exactly my thoughts.. I'll google it!

Re:timothy...

[Anonymous Coward]

Your idea of using solar powered chickens as a fuel for spaceships intrigues me and I wish to subscribe to your magazine.

Re:timothy...

[Walt Dismal]

h ttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=devious,+undetectable+methods+of+murder+"how to find IP address of Timothy or maybe Julian Assange"+"I am not CIA"+"Really, I'm not CIA, honest"

Re:works the other way, too

[InfiniteWisdom]

Naah, I took care of him. I covered my tracks made it look like an accident, but I figured even if they did realize it was murder, you'll be the one they come looking for.

Re:timothy...

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you left out a step or two...

1) Setup a second home WiFi router (that has no internet connection). Turn logging on, and leave it "open"
2) Harvest MAC addresses of your neighbors as they try to connect
3) Use the public hotspot with a Live CD like you said, but set your MAC address to one harvested from your neighbor.
4) If your neighbor gets arrested, it serves him right for trying to mooch off of your internet connection.

Re:Rule number one for breaking any law

[Anonymous Coward]

Typical Reiser filesystem behavior. Flush important material, pretend it was never there, try to clean it up so badly and making such a mess that it's obvious you were the culprit who destroyed the material in the first place. If only he'd used the Internet to learn about real file systems, he'd have understood better not to leave debris around when you delete something.

Re:works the other way, too

[InfiniteWisdom]

Yeah, yeah... I know you're technically not "dead" till the air in your coffin runs out.

Re:timothy...

[The Mighty Buzzard]

As a radical gun toting redneck in a flyover state, I am offended by your assertion that I am a minority.

Re:timothy...

[lwsimon]

As a guy in a compound in a flyover country, only about half of those things are in my search history. I already know how to do the other half :0)

Re:timothy...

[Garridan]

This reminds me of my favorite n00b mistake as a web dev. Our admin backend had a bunch of clickable "delete" links for frontpage content. No verification, no "undo", just a naked delete. Whenever my boss would go to futz with the site, Alexa ran through and deleted every single item as they spidered each webpage he viewed. I never could get him to stop using our admin page with the Alexa widget (despite this happening twice and me upbraiding him for it both times), which prompted me to finally take time away from putting out other fires and redo the backend with security as a primary objective.