Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!helps!uudell!upurbmw.dell.com!sblair From: sblair@upurbmw.dell.com (Steve Blair) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: relative unsophistication of the feds Message-ID: <13541@uudell.dell.com> Date: 27 Dec 90 14:57:47 GMT References: Sender: news@uudell.dell.com Reply-To: sblair@upurbmw.dell.com (Steve Blair) Organization: Dell Computer Corp. Lines: 24 In article , idjiot@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey) writes: |> don't for one second believe that the feds don't know how or can't |> retrieve any computer operation in its running state if they so desire... |> |> paranoia for the week.....hardware has backdoors too.... |> WHOA..... Some law enforcement types don't have the slightest clue of how to get into a system. To wit, a call was received to a person who worked in the UNIX support group. The caller was the Travis County(Austin) DA's office. Seems that they'd confiscated a UNIX system with our s/w on it in a drug raid. After a day of 2 of trying, and trying to get into the system, they called in one of our UNIX support staff to the DA's office to get into the system. Specific generalities always get folks into trouble....me steve