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From: cirby@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby))
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: "Bad" backups
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.074612.42317@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 07:40:12 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.041806.29066@digibd.com> <1990Nov22.123610.27246@eff.org>  <1990Dec03.034248.21073@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
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In article <1990Dec03.034248.21073@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
> 
> 	You say that they don't knock so therefore, stuff kept in RAM
> wouldn't be lost when they took it.  Yet I haven't heard of any
> raids where the raiders did a memory dump before they took the computers.
> (Having to unplug it along the way.)

..you have to remember that the Feds aren't very sophisticated on this.

Heck, they couldn't even figure out how to use a set of keys to open
the filing cabinets encountered during Sun Devil.  Instead of opening
them in a normal fashion (with an offered set of keys), they used
crowbars...

Really enhances my faith in their ability to find stuff in RAM.

Or ROM.

Or on disk (I have this image of some guy in a cheap suit sitting there
holding floppies up to the light: "Nope.  Nothing on this one... or this
one... or this one either!  They must have erased these things- I can't
find any printing on *any* of them...")

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