Prosecutors' Contention That Hotmail E-mail Is "Extremely Difficult To Trace"

Lucky Green shamrock at cypherpunks.to
Fri Sep 6 17:21:39 PDT 2002


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





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