In this day and age it's easy for law enforcement to get someone's IP from a comment.
Let's say someone answer all of his questions truthfully. OP now knows that this person: 1) smokes pot 2) buys pot 3) has knowledge of other drug use 4) goes to this university 5) IP from which he can get the address and identity of whoever commented.
Now LEO's have a list of known drug users in the university. If they live on-campus they can just show up and search their place which would have a much higher success rate of finding contraband than random searches. From LEO's perspective this method of gathering information is cheap, easy, and fairly clever.
For any warrant a judge just needs probable cause.
If this is a honey pot set up by police they would certainly have a judge briefed about the operation and he/she would have told police if it is enough evidence of probable cause to get warrants for IP addresses for their operation.
Do you really think campus police are so swamped with crime to put this relatively simple operation in action?
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u/gmz_88 Aug 30 '14
In this day and age it's easy for law enforcement to get someone's IP from a comment.
Let's say someone answer all of his questions truthfully. OP now knows that this person: 1) smokes pot 2) buys pot 3) has knowledge of other drug use 4) goes to this university 5) IP from which he can get the address and identity of whoever commented.
Now LEO's have a list of known drug users in the university. If they live on-campus they can just show up and search their place which would have a much higher success rate of finding contraband than random searches. From LEO's perspective this method of gathering information is cheap, easy, and fairly clever.