James wrote:
On 5 Sep 2002 at 16:48, Steve Schear wrote:
3. After September 11, 2001, the FBI learned that Moussaoui had used a computer at Kinko s, in Eagan, Minnesota, to connect to the internet. When the FBI learned that Moussaoui had used a computer at Kinko s, the FBI investigated that Kinko s store and was informed that the Kinko s had since erased the data from its computers, as is Kinko s regular practice. Accordingly, the FBI did not seize the computers from Kinko s, Eagan, Minnesota.
Moral: Always make erasing unneeded data a regular practice, if you want to keep your computers.
Absolutely. Furthermore, encourage your customers to encrypt their data: Some European ISPs, fed up with the costs of complying with interception warrants and subpoenas, have begun to offer discounts to customers that exclusively utilize encrypting protocols. The logic being that it is cheaper to notify law enforcement that the ISP is unable to tap the information due to the link being encrypted than it is to tap a link. --Lucky Green