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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: "Bad" backups
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.211809.6867@eff.org>
Date: 13 Dec 90 21:18:09 GMT
References: <5081@trantor.harris-atd.com> <2575@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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In article <2575@cod.NOSC.MIL> lalor@cod.NOSC.MIL (Joe Lalor) writes:
>
>If you maliciously try to conceal data (regardless of the how clever
>your means are) to hinder an ongoing law-enforcement investigation,
>you're breaking the law.
>
>Encrypting data with a secret password (done all the time in military    
>labs) is okay as long as you are not doing it to obstruct justice.
>Taking the fifth, IMHO, in the above scenario could leas to contempt.
>
>JOE LALOR
>-apologies to Mike for any area above where I may have gone astray
>from what he was trying to say-

You did fine. Maybe you're going to be more successful than I am
in getting the point across.


--Mike




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