come on guys...we all know people (or at least i do) that would spend all day fishing for account info and use it to hack other computers and sign up for porn sites. it was a way of life for some

im not sure of the laws in the uk reguarding this. does the law forbid anyone from registering with such a site or is it the downloading and posession of kiddie porn thats expressed in the law. From what ive gathered all they have is credit card information etc and no record or proof of anything else.

Your new computer was found clean. i would think a child pervert would take and hide his/her stash of pics on it first thing. its hard to believe someone like that would just forget about it just because they got a new computer. i hope you've talked to a lawer but it seems to me with the insecuritys in computers 4 years ago, the lack in general of security knowledge at that time combined with the lack of hard evidence against you the burden of proof is on them.

what operating system was on the old computer and how was it set up. was finnancial info stored on it. did many people have access to it. anyone that had access to it could have gotten your passwords with ease using a program like 'snitch'.

when i think of the number of ways someone could have gotten your information coupled with the fact that there was nothing on your computer...i have to side with you.