Re: DOJ Computer Seizure Guidelines

[Dave Banisar <tc@phantom.com>]

Actually we didnt have to sue them for once to get it. I guess 
they wanted to make it public. The encryption section is interesting. 
They seem to be admitting that there are 5th amendment issues related to 
disclosing your key and that they may have to immunize people before 
forcing them to give their keys up.

Dave


On Tue, 24 Jan 1995, Harry Bartholomew wrote:

> 
>     Seen on comp.society.privacy.  This document was obtained
>     by an FOIA suit by EPIC. I ftp'd from the cpsr.org but even
>     at 2:30 a.m. PST the 315 Kbytes took an excruciating 481 seconds.
> 
>     For those on netcom its on /ftp/pub/ba/bart easily available,
>     if others can get through to ftp.netcom.com at least the
>     transfer might be faster than cpsr.
> 
>     Encrypted information is dealt with on pps 54-55 in particular.
>     I'll leave conclusions to our lawyerly types.
>