From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 95 10:45:36 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Digital Fingerprinting
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> Finding the mail mixed in there is evidence that supports the "charge" 
> but surely can be rebutted.  When I was practicing in a small town c. 
> 1984, people would be summoned (sent a paper telling them to show up) to 
> court for illegal dumping if their mail was found with other trash, old 
> refrigerators, etc., in a creek somewhere.  Those charged could always 
> put on proof that Billy Bob's garbage service picked up their trash ...

> The sentence was almost always to go and pick up some multiple of the 
> garbage found and take it to the landfill.

This was Stockbridge, in MA, right :-?

	        That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a
	thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't
	get up until the next morning, when we got a phone call from officer
	Obie.  Said "Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a
	half a ton of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any
	information bout it". I said "Yes Sir Officer Obie, I cannot tell a
	lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."
(c) Arlo Guthrie


 

Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team                                
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com