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From: rabbit@hyprion.ddmi.com (Dr. Roger Rabbit)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Musing on Constitutionality
Message-ID: <56@hyprion.ddmi.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 00:54:09 GMT
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Reply-To: rabbit@hyprion.UUCP (Dr. Roger Rabbit)
Organization: Somewhere in Abilene, Kansas
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In article <3108@mindlink.UUCP> a80@mindlink.UUCP (Greg Goss) writes:
}> rabbit@hyprion.ddmi.com writes:
}> 
}> In article <11608@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene You know - I
}> wonder why the SS just doesn't get a computer expert to
}> come with them to the site of the raid and duplicate the hard drive
}> contents? Why do they need to take someone's machine?? ... And, I DON'T
}> 
}
}There are too many "tricks" to hide information.
}
}You mentioned Poland.  One of the solidarity tricks was to circulate a floppy
}with some report on tractor production or something boring on it.  Then you
}take Norton and unerase a file with some innocuous name and read the
}newsletter.  Then you erase it again and pass it on.
}
[Other tricks mentioned]

Thats why I said that they should send someone in to look at the machine.
Give the owner of the machine a choice: "Either you let this expert take
as much time looking at your machine as he deems neccessary, or we take
it away." That would seem to me to be the more reasonable approach to take 
in an "innocent until proven guilty" system.
 
I personaly beleive that the SS confiscations are an attempt to bypass
Due Process in order to punish those that they think are guilty. Perhaps
they don't have enough evidence for an indictment, perhaps they don't want
to spend the $$$ for a trial - whatever. In any event, the government is
pissing on The Constitution and I don't like it a bit. (Yes - I have 
already written lengthy letters to my US Reps and Senators about this.)
 
By the way - could someone E-MAIL me the address of the EFF so that I
can get more involved in their organization. We had better take back our
rights before it becomes neccessary to use guns to do so.
 

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