From: tony@morgan.demon.co.uk (Tony Kidson)
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 92 02:43:14 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Electronic Banking
Message-ID: <893@morgan.demon.co.uk>
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In message <9211280427.AA21844@rchilder.us.oracle.com> you write:
>
> "Using the net, the 'banker' could easily be 'offshore' and not
>  subject to US law in these matters."
>
> Feds busted some folks doing just this with modems in Puerto Rico,
> I think it was, within the past year ... heard it on NPR, maybe it
> was BBC or CBC ...
>
>
> -- richard
The 'Feds' writ does not run everywhere. After all, Puerto Rico 
_is_ a US colony.


Tony
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