On Sun, 24 Dec 1995, attila wrote:
On Sun, 24 Dec 1995, Brian Davis wrote:
On Sat, 23 Dec 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Fred Cohen writes to me in private: ...
Let's see. I guess I would start by having the police confiscate the toad.com computers becfause thay are part of a criminal conspiracy to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I didn't realize that AI research was that far along. Can someone point me to the specs for the computer that can become a "part of a criminal conspiracy"??
EBD
daamage my reputation. Criminal because of the recent changes in the law that prohibit you from sending me information I don't want to get.
the basis of the seizure is for evidence collection. then they take their sweet time scrounging the disks for evidence. If no evidence is found, they give it back --eventually. I saw one case go by a couple years back where they were trying to make the computer an accessory to the crime (I dunno, maybe it was supposed to auto-dial and drop the dime --no that's in 18USC as failure to snitch!)
Much truth here, but not relevant to Dr. Fred's threat of a civil suit. He can't have his attorneys just call the FBI to pick up toad's computer. CoS's seizure of computers, while shameful, was based on a different legal theory than the good Dr. can possibly allege. EBD
of course, if there are drugs involved, they confiscate it as spoils of the criminal act and the equipment is impounded and eventually sold after conviction for the benefit of their slush funds.
I would imagin you have seen plenty of the latter one in the Federal attorney's office. this also gets into the issues of private cryptography and that _everybody_ should give up privacy protection, first amendment rights, etc. so uncle can catch a few dopers, gun runners, and other assorted malcreants [sic] --like the difference between {mis,mal}feasance: in both cases you get fucked, but 'mal' is intentional...
Not a lawyer on the Net, although I play one in real life.
hey, at least you admit you're having a good time!
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