On Oct 8, 2010, at 11:21 16AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

My question: if someone plants something in your car, isn't it your property afterwards?

http://gawker.com/5658671/dont-post-pictures-of-an-fbi-tracking-device-you-f...

See http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/ for even more disturbing aspects of the story -- they operated by intimidation (to say nothing of apparent ethnic and religious profiling). --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE