Pure government/law enforcement mentality at work!
"We have to be able to read any format in existence
to cover every imaginable contingency, no matter how
unlikely or absurd."
How many high-tech criminals do you suppose are doing their
dastardly deeds on original Kaypros these days? Could there
be vast child pornography and wire fraud rings tapping away
on our beloved vintage computers (and perhaps linked via
300 baud BBS systems?) Murder contracts typed up on
that TRS-80 model 1 perhaps? (It does have a certain
appeal as a plot element of a techno-thriller, though, doesn't it?)
Or are they simply so backlogged that they're just now
getting around to the evidence they seized in 1980 due
to the acute shortage of government round tuits?
Someone should tell them that a smart computer criminal is
going to encrypt his secret data, not keep it as plain text on
an obsolete computer system in hopes that they will forget to
seize the computer and thus be unable later (30 years later?)
to read the data stored on their floppies. :)
There's an excellent book (available for free reading on-line) called
the "Hacker Crackdown" which I'm just finishing.
If it is to be believed, when they do a computer crime
raid, they seize EVERYTHING that's even remotely
computer-like, including mousepads, calculators,
tape players, music CDs and vinyl records (maybe they're
data media cleverly disguised as music or cassettes!), and
probably that box of cookies with a picture of a computer
on the side too. I heard one raid was particularly hard on
Jelly Bellies...
That putative crime-infested Kaypro would be going out
the door along with the Athalon, G4 and P4 systems,
and most everything else; no problem there. :)
-- Ross
Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 07:55:00 -0700 Bruce Lane
> <kyrrin_at_bluefeathertech.com> writes:
> > Joe, and other Teledisk group buy participants,
> >
> > I've got some bad news. It appears that, within the last
> > year or two, Sydex has completely sold off the rights to Teledisk, and
> the
> > product itself, to a company called Forensics International. FI's web
> page
> > clearly states that they will sell only to law enforcement agencies and
> > Fortune-1000 companies that can show a need for the software.
>
> Nazi facist bastards! I'll bet there's a *conspiracy* at work here!
> (Where's Fox Mulder when you need him?)
>
> These assholes even claim that:
>
> "TeleDisk was developed to assist the U. S. Treasury Department
> in the processing of computer evidence tied to floppy diskettes."
>
> Does anybody know if this is *true*?! I always thought it was
> developed to distribute software via BBS's (and other electonic
> means).
>
> Rrrrrrrr. Now I'm pissed.
>
> Jeff
>
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