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From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: "Bad" backups
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.232250.12875@eff.org>
Date: 19 Dec 90 23:22:50 GMT
References: <1990Dec18.020803.2058@eff.org> <1990Dec18.021419.2214@eff.org> <1990Dec19.121253.43876@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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In article <1990Dec19.121253.43876@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> cirby@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby)) writes:
>
>I have a minor question-
>
>Why should they have to enter the house to "search" the computer?
>
>I can sit down with a couple of hundred dollars worth of equipment
>and an antenna and read everything scrolling down your terminal from 
>*across the street*... why bother with entering the house?

What makes you certain that the data the government wants will be
"scrolling down" the terminal? What if the data they want is on 
a hard disk and is accessed irregularly?


--Mike



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