Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: "Bad" backups Message-ID: <36371@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 14 Nov 90 23:14:09 GMT References: <36353@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: snow-white.ee.udel.edu In article fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes: >If the cops show up with a search warrent for the premises you are >required to unlock doors, open safes and so on. I'm sure disabling >booby traps would also be required. Ah, but that would imply that the police know it is boobytrapped. If by the time the police got to the backups they were just blank tapes, I doubt there is much that they could prove. Remember, I'm presupposing that you are intentionally running an illegal "hackers BBS" or credit-card-number publishing BBS or whatever. >Now if they searched while you weren't present and failed to disable >the trap...hmmm, that would be a tough call. I'd see a lwayer before >I tried it though. Oh, Mr Lawyer, I'm breaking the law. Would you help? :-) >and whatever you do be sure your trap can't injure someone. I've never heard of a bulk-tape eraser hurting anybody. -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee -----