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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: TO A.R.S. READERS FRO
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sgoehrin@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (scott goehring)

>they're not allowed to destroy anything; if they do, you have a damn
>strong case for a civil suit, and maybe even for criminal charges.

    If they seize your f*cking hardisk, they have effectively
    stolen any way for you to prove what was on it (and what
    wasn't) on the date they took it.  Unless you back up your
    disk daily and hide the copy offsite so they can't sieze that
    too.

    Anything can be written, copied, or erased from the disk in
    question (theoretically as sacred as one's diary) while in
    their grubby mitts.

    If hard disks are not treated as constitutionally protected
    from forced entry, like your home, the questions of anonymity
    and encryption become moot.

    I believe it's the thin end of a new totalitarianism of greed
    attempting to force the future through turnstiles of mindless
    consumer servitude.  Besides that, it kinda reminds me of dogs 
    sniffing each other's butt-holes.

    I don't want the government or justice system to be able to
    tell us "assume the position" just cause someone says we
    can't quote them.

    We are looking here at the thin end of the wedge.  If we don't 
    act quickly to protect our rights, we'll be trying to explain to
    our grandkids what privacy *used* to be like.

    I, for one, cannot remember even now.

            +--------------------------------------+
           Rev. Dennis L Erlich  * * the inFormer * *
      dennis.l.erlich@support.com  +  inForm@primenet.com
                           "tar baby"