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Will readers call BS on this lack of realism in this scenario?
For a crime thriller story of mine, I want the police to get a warrant to search the emails of suspects. However, I want one of the suspects to find out his email has been hacked from the search and realize the police are onto him.
But in my research with the police, they told me that when the police get a warrant to search someone's email, the internet email providers give them copies of their emails and the police do not actually have to hack in.
But if I write it so that they do have to hack in, in order to search the emails, will the lack of realism bother the audience perhaps?
Thank you very much for any perspectives on this! I really appreciate it!
Will readers call BS on this lack of realism in this scenario?
For a crime thriller story of mine, I want the police to get a warrant to search the emails of suspects. However, I want one of the suspects to find out his email has been hacked from the search and realize the police are onto him.
But in my research with the police, they told me that when the police get a warrant to search someone's email, the internet email providers give them copies of their emails and the police do not actually have to hack in.
But if I write it so that they do have to hack in, in order to search the emails, will the lack of realism bother the audience perhaps?
Thank you very much for any perspectives on this! I really appreciate it!
Oh okay, thank you for the input! How does it raise the possibility of it being thrown out exactly, if they got a search warrant from a judge though?
Search warrants are very specific. You think there is drug related stuff, you get to search for that. You DON'T get to go on a fishing expedition for whatever else. Hacking in, outside the confines of the warrant would not only get a case tossed, but could present a counter-claim that would put the municipal body at risk of significant loss in a suit.
Those who have a hate for police might read past that. My response would be similar to that I had with the tv program "Modern Marvels." At a point, they flipped from actual facts to nonsense that was offensive to everyone in the industries that they focused on. They then became the program that ONLY had a reputation for properly covering the development of the toilet.
You want fast income? Tell lies that a biased audience wants to read or hear. Die before the lawsuits start coming back to haunt you.
Oh okay thank you for the input. I want the warrant to be for a specific email between the suspect and another person. They would have to sift through a lot of emails to find the specific one. Is there a way to write it where the police can legally get into a suspect's email to look for a specific one?
Yes the email is being hacked through the search warrant police the want to get in there to search for a specific email, with the authorization of a warrant of course.
Oh okay thank you for the input. I want the warrant to be for a specific email between the suspect and another person. They would have to sift through a lot of emails to find the specific one. Is there a way to write it where the police can legally get into a suspect's email to look for a specific one?
Yes the email is being hacked through the search warrant police the want to get in there to search for a specific email, with the authorization of a warrant of course.
Got it. I think my confusion came from not thinking of a warrant as hacking.
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