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Re: hammers, crowbars and remailers & Leahy

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Subject: Re: hammers, crowbars and remailers & Leahy
From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:14:42 -0500 (EST)
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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 8-Mar-96 hammers, crowbars and
remai.. by JFA T. QC, Canada@citene 
> Would an anonymous phone call notifying the hardware store owner that
> somebody will buy tools that will be used to commit a crime
> be significant?

I don't think so, or at least I'd argue that it's not sufficient. I
think the legal concept is _scienter_, or "guilty knowledge." Is an
anonymous phone call sufficient to establish that?

-Declan

References:
- hammers, crowbars and remailers & Leahy
  - From: [email protected] (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada))

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