From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 04:15:26 +0800
To: Dave Del Torto <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: Re: [IRS] Elvis in Escrow
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At 04:40 AM 4/16/96 -0700, Dave Del Torto wrote:
>[from SF Examiner somewhere around 12-14 April 96]
>..............................................................................
>"IRS Worker Took Peek at Celebrities' Records"
>[Associated Press]
>  Memphis - A former IRS employee who said boredom had led him to peek at
>the tax records of President Clinton, Elvis Presley and other famous people
>has been acquitted of federal charges.
>  Robert Patterson, 38, said it wasn't malicious - he was just trying to
>learn how to better use the Internal Revenue Service computers.
>  "I was sitting there bored, so I started punching up names," said Patterson.
>..............................................................................

>Hmmm. _We_ do it, it's "malicious cracking/hacking" and they toss us in the
>clink... _they_ do it, and it's "practice" (and they get acquitted). And
>_these_ are the people who want to escrow _my_ keys? As IF!


I have a solution to this problem.

Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com