Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!wayner From: wayner@fulla.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: "Bad" backups Message-ID: <49185@cornell.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 90 19:32:09 GMT References: <36371@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Nov20.041806.29066@digibd.com> <1990Nov22.123610.27246@eff.org> <61265@bbn.BBN.COM> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Ithaca NY Lines: 17 >But... I hate to give aid and comfort to the 'enemy', but unfortunately >the situtation is true, as a matter of fact, and that's irrelevant to >whether it is used by some as an excuse for no-knock searches. Fact >is, that it is just not very hard to make a computer system be "booby >trapped" so that the "offending bits" vanish in a VERY big hurry. The >speed with which computers could make incriminating evidence just >"vanish" makes flushing amphetamines down the toilet seem crude by >comparison. In Poland and the Eastern Bloc, floppy disks were the favored method of illegal information storage. They would just bend them in half and bye, bye evidence. Peter Wayner Department of Computer Science Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY 14850 EMail:wayner@cs.cornell.edu Office: 607-255-9202 or 255-1008 Home: 116 Oak Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-277-6678