From: Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:41:28 +0800
To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: [IRS] Elvis in Escrow
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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:

> At  4:40 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.
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

"acquitted" here may mean that cypherpunks were on the trial jury.

If the "fix" was in, as Dave seems to imply, there never would've been a 
trial.

EBD




> >
> >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 wonder, how much is NSA's secret key worth?  You know, the one they use
> to grab the extra key bits that Lotus Notes sends them.
> 
> 
> Bill Frantz       | The CDA means  | Periwinkle  --  Computer Consulting
> frantz@netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA




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