Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!decwrl!world!eff!mnemonic From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: "Bad" backups Message-ID: <1990Nov22.123610.27246@eff.org> Date: 22 Nov 90 12:36:10 GMT References: <36371@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Nov20.041806.29066@digibd.com> Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation Lines: 30 In article <1990Nov20.041806.29066@digibd.com> merlyn@digibd.com (Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy)) writes: >You're all missing the most obvious solution: > >Old Adage: Never write anything down. > >New Adage: Keep everything in RAM. > >Cops usually remove what they are searching for, and I doubt they >would give a second thought about turning the computer off & unplugging it. Actually, this is false. Articles written by dedicated-computer-crime-unit "experts" like Catherine Conly and John McEwan advise law-enforcement agents to bust down the doors of computer criminals rather than knocking and announcing their identity on entry--precisely because of the possibility that data might be lost of the alleged criminals have a chance to shut their systems off. Good thing they have you to confirm the need for their no-knock-entry prescriptions. --Mike -- Mike Godwin, (617) 864-0665 |"If the doors of perception were cleansed mnemonic@eff.org | every thing would appear to man as it is, Electronic Frontier | infinite." Foundation | --Blake