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From: merlyn@digibd.com (Brian Westley (Merlyn LeRoy))
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: "Bad" backups
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.172423.24992@digibd.com>
Date: 17 Dec 90 17:24:23 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.164524.1860@digibd.com> <5758@catfish10.UUCP> <1990Dec13.045324.2811@eff.org>
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In article <1990Dec13.045324.2811@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
>In article <5758@catfish10.UUCP> schultz@motcid.UUCP (Rob Schultz) writes:
>>Is booby-trapping this data ok?  
>Booby-trapping your data is perfectly legal, unless you're
>doing it to thwart a specific, ongoing law-enforcement investigation,
>in which case it probably isn't.

What a minute!  What if the first inkling you have of such an investigation
is a no-knock search?

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?

This is the kind of thing I was referring to.
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Merlyn LeRoy