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From: halcyon!grendel@sumax.seattleu.edu (Grendel)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Sophistication of federal investigators
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Date: 7 Jan 91 23:54:43 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. There's every reason to believe the damage occurred - or at
> least started - before they got it to their investigation site. Thus, if we
> HAD been wicked people, the investigators themselves might have destroyed
> the evidence. And this wasn't some local bunch; this was the US Secret
> Service.


 Don't they bother to train anyone or even brief them about this kind of 
stuff? Seems kind of stupid for them to go to all of that trouble and 
then to break it while getting the hardware. Oh well, it's only the 
government.


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