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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: "Bad" backups
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.021034.2133@eff.org>
Date: 18 Dec 90 02:10:34 GMT
References: <5758@catfish10.UUCP> <1990Dec13.045324.2811@eff.org> <1990Dec17.172423.24992@digibd.com>
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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In article <1990Dec17.172423.24992@digibd.com> merlyn@digibd.com (Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy)) writes:
>
>What a minute!  What if the first inkling you have of such an investigation
>is a no-knock search?

Then you won't be guilty of obstructing justice. I've already 
explained this three or four times.

>What if they don't KNOW what the data was (because it is now gone), but
>they prosecute you because they THOUGHT it was the naughty data they wanted?

If you boobytrapped the data because *you* thought they were about
to search you as part of an ongoing investigation, then you're guilty
of obstructing justice.

It doesn't matter if they never find out what the data was.



--Mike




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