From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 05:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
To: bill.stewart@pobox.com (Bill Stewart)
Subject: Re: "Lawful access" vs warrants:  I found the difference today!
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Bill Stewart wrote:

| Even though there basically aren't any foreign Commies left any more,
| there's always The Pope, and Zionism, and Foreign Drug Cartels, and 
| foreign embassies*, and foreign-based MultiNational Corporations, 
| and people with accounts in Swiss banks or Anguillan computers.  
| Power isn't just for governments any more.

| ~~~
| * If they clue in to Elgoland and Vargaland, some of us could
| be in Big Trouble :-)
| ~~~

	If they had to be logically consistent, then recognizing
agents of Elgoland* as agents of a foreign power would require
recognizing Elgoland as a foriegn power.  That might be worth a few of
our spies.

* I have no idea where or who Elgoland is.

Umm, make that someone else's spies. :)

Adam


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