
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 11:11 PM 5/22/97 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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In <3.0.2.32.19970522204359.00b37cc0@mail.teleport.com>, on 05/22/97 at 08:43 PM, Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> said:
Bell was arrested Friday on a federal complaint charging him with obstructing and impeding the Internal Revenue Service and the use of false Social Security numbers. The complaint said that documents found on Bell's computer boasted of the mercaptan attack on the office of a Portland lawyer who had sued him.
<sigh> I would have thought that Jim would be smarter than leaving such info on his computer unencrypted. I find it equally troubling that he would put such info in "writting" to begin with.
Ofcource since no inventory was done of the documents contained on his HD the FEDS could plant anything that they wanted with little hope of proving that they did.
This is one of the few stories out of the whole mess that I do believe. I was told about the above incident over a year ago by a friend who has known Jim for many years.
I'm not quite sure how one could counter against such an attack. Even if one stored all documents in an encrypted partition there are still protions of the HD that the OS will require to be unencrypted. Perhaps have a boot disk that would decrypt the OS section of the HD then boot the OS off the HD which then would use a crypto IFS to accesses the remainder of the drive. Even going to these lenghts they could just put what they wanted on a floppy and claim that they "found" it.
It is my understanding that Jim did not encrypt his hard drive at all. (Jim was not all that experienced as a computer user. (By his own admission. At least what he said the time I met him.)) If the feds has stuck to the stink bomb story, it would have been alot more plausable. But the "poisoning the bullrun" and "911" stuff is a bit far fetched for Jim. It does not fit the way he thinks.
I guess the only *real* solution is to get rid of the thugs.
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