From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 04:11:18 +0800
To: Ernest Hua <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Key Recovery / The True Story
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970524122113.00756270@netcom13.netcom.com>
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At 01:59 PM 5/23/97 -0700, Ernest Hua wrote:
>    Is it EVER okay for spooks to break into a church's computer to
>    find out if they are secret terrorists?
>
>I'm not sure the answer is clearly one way or another, and I am
>willing to bet that the tone of the answers will mostly be emotional
>appeals to some idealistic standard or pessimistic nightmares.

>From a pragmatic standpoint,  if the feds can burn down a church with the
worshippers still inside with impunity, it stands to reason that breaking
into their computers would not be a very big deal.

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