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Re: More stories from the Bell jar...
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At 11:11 PM 5/22/97 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
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>In <[email protected]>, on 05/22/97
> at 08:43 PM, Alan Olsen <[email protected]> said:
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>>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.
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><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.
This is one of the few stories out of the whole mess that I do believe.
I was told about the above incident over a year ago by a friend who has known
Jim for many years.
>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.
It is my understanding that Jim did not encrypt his hard drive at all. (Jim
was not all that experienced as a computer user. (By his own admission. At
least what he said the time I met him.))
If the feds has stuck to the stink bomb story, it would have been alot more
plausable. But the "poisoning the bullrun" and "911" stuff is a bit far
fetched for Jim. It does not fit the way he thinks.
>I guess the only *real* solution is to get rid of the thugs.
Easier said than done...
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