[Public Prosecutor vs Rutinin Bin Sulaiman – K42-60-2010] that is given to a hardware device by the manufacturer. This address is used to interact with network devices. The accused runs a hand phone shop in 65 Ranau. The computer was recovered by the investigating officer from the shop. The computer was sent for forensic analysis to Cybersecurity Malaysia. The forensic expert recovered the MAC address from the said computer. The said MAC address matched the MAC address that was captured by the Telekom Malaysia Berhad servers during the internet 70 session in question when the offensive remark was posted on the online visitor book of the homepage of HRH Sultan of Perak. The forensic expert said that the offensive words “Sultan Perak” and “gilaaaa! could not be found in one of the two hard disks of the computer. The other hard disk had suffered mechanical failure and could be not powered up. However, he said 75 that this is possible because it was not stored in the browser “cache”. Nonetheless he said that the MAC address of the computer could be recovered. Based on the circumstantial evidence that the computer with the MAC 80 address that was used to make the posting in question was found in the shop of the accused and the fact that the internet account belonged to the accused himself, the prosecution submitted that the accused must have posted the offensive remark in question. 85 Findings of Session Court Judge In his brief judgment, the learned Session Court Judge ruled that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case. summarized as follows: 3 His reasons can be