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From: john@qip.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Evidence (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality)
Message-ID: <4572@qip.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 00:57:49 GMT
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Reply-To: john@qip.UUCP (John Moore)
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In article <26938:Sep1814:48:2390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
][In article <8306@helios.TAMU.EDU> n357cw@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Alexander) writes:
][> Let me ask this of the Usenet readersip...  Suppose I were to post
][> 100's of Credit Card numbers, or login procedures for sensitive
][> computers, or AT&T proprietary source code on one of the newsgroups..
][> When this message would be distributed throughout the world, would the
][> Secret Service be able to confiscate each machine which that particular
][> posting resides?  
][
][Suppose you were to publish the same information in an advertisement in
][a national newspaper. When that advertisement would be distributed
][throughout the world, would the Secret Service be able to confiscate
][each newspaper in which that particular advertisement resides?
The newspaper would not publish the list in the first place. Electronic media
is special in that frequently there is no editor.
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