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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Nevada Guv candidate issues hacker statement
Summary: Sounds good.
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.210530.19648@world.std.com>
Date: 29 Sep 90 21:05:30 GMT
Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Organization: The World
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James Gallaway, republican candidate for governor in Nevada, issued a
statement including the following:

"These are my positions, relative to some of the recent law
enforcement practices by some government agents:

1. Government responses to alleged misdemeanors and crimes must be no
more than comparable to the seriousness of the wrong-doings;

2. Simple electronic trespass without harm must be treated as any
other simple trespass.  It does not justify armed raids on teenagers,
forced entry of private homes, nor seizure of telephone handsets,
answering machines, computer printers, published documentation, audio
tapes and the like;

3. The notion that equipment can be "arrested" and held inaccessible
to its owner, without promptly charging the owner with a crime, is
absolutely unacceptable.  The practice of holding seized equipment and
data for months or years is a serious penalty that must be imposed
only by a court of law and only after a fair and public hearing and
judicial finding of guilt;

4. Teleconferencing and BBS systems must have the same protections
against suppression, prior restraint, search or seizure as do
newspapers, printing presses and public meeting places;

5. The contents of electronic-mail and of confidential or closed
teleconferencing exchanges must have the same protections against
surveillance or seizure as does First Class Mail in a U.S. Post
Office, and private discussions among a group in a home or boardroom."

Gallaway has been a principal in several telecom and computer company
startups.

(excerpted from a ClariNet/UPI article)
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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