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From: lazlo@triton.cirt.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Sophistication of federal investigators
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.165650.14066@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 16:56:50 GMT
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sjackson@pro-smof.cts.com (Steve Jackson) writes:

> There may be federal investigators who can efficiently deal with any kind of 
> hardware, but there are also some who don't have a clue. Case in point: Of
> the three computers seized from my office, one was totally wrecked when it
> was returned.

This has abolutely nothing to do with the agents' abilities to handle the
hardware properly; as someone who's lived in the computer underground (or
at least at the fringes, of late) for six or seven years I can safely say
that any damage to your hardware when you get it back from the Bureau is
*intentional*.  It happens too consistently in cases where hardware is
seized as "evidence" and then returned with no charges filed to be mere
all-thumbs coincidence.  They are trying to teach you a "lesson".

Lazlo (lazlo@triton.cirt.unm.edu)
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