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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.news
Subject: Re: Evidence (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality)
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Date: 18 Sep 90 14:48:23 GMT
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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?

One might ask the same question about any other communications medium.

---Dan