From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 12:43:06 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Subject: Re: More stories from the Bell jar...
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970522204359.00b37cc0@mail.teleport.com>
Message-ID: <199705230434.XAA25146@mailhub.amaranth.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

In <3.0.2.32.19970522204359.00b37cc0@mail.teleport.com>, on 05/22/97 
   at 08:43 PM, Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com> said:

>Bell was arrested Friday on a federal complaint charging him with 
>obstructing and impeding the Internal Revenue Service and the use  of
>false Social Security numbers.  The complaint said that documents  found
>on Bell's computer boasted of the mercaptan attack on the office of a
>Portland lawyer who had sued him.

<sigh> I would have thought that Jim would be smarter than leaving such
info on his computer unencrypted. I find it equally troubling that he
would put such info in "writting" to begin with.

Ofcource since no inventory was done of the documents contained on his HD
the FEDS could plant anything that they wanted with little hope of proving
that they did.

I'm not quite sure how one could counter against such an attack. Even if
one stored all documents in an encrypted partition there are still
protions of the HD that the OS will require to be unencrypted. Perhaps
have a boot disk that would decrypt the OS section of the HD then boot the
OS off the HD which then would use a crypto IFS to accesses the remainder
of the drive. Even going to these lenghts they could just put what they
wanted on a floppy and claim that they "found" it.

I guess the only *real* solution is to get rid of the thugs.

- -- 
- -----------------------------------------------------------
William H. Geiger III  http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii
Geiger Consulting    Cooking With Warp 4.0

Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice
PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail.
                          
Finger whgiii@amaranth.com for PGP Key and other info
- -----------------------------------------------------------
 
Tag-O-Matic: Rumour: NT means Not Tested

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2
Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000

iQCVAwUBM4UsQo9Co1n+aLhhAQF+ZQP+IAiMNloo7A5crGsGTVycb8iuSzBFE+bV
VVOsW/PkINzwape65RNX9k49MQPDyjFgUHWmVqHILIYXwmQJ4dANVeU0lydq9roD
jaXKrhmHcK7XCcyhRtGpcAJbpuVcMZOJQZ9Plwy82PZrz22kEXQAvyJTVkt10PKV
elV2lDV1fR8=
=fy2A
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----