I'd like to see them take my gear. It would hurt like hell, but I'd get a
gas from seeing an FBI long van - loaded, pulling a loaded 16 foot U-Haul
trailer out of here with axels groaning, digging grooves in the lawn from
the sheer weight. Finally, to see em' work for a living!
Some of you have massive collections of rack mount gear - or worse. That
would be an interesting moving job. Raid and move. Not chat up a few
friends, buy beer, on alternate weekends causually taking things apart and
moving them.....
The agency might have to make multiple trips in your cases. <Grin>
One day when I was fourteen I came home from school to find the padlock
cut on the main hatch of our home (we lived on a Gulfstar 44' sailboat for
three years), and some paperwork. The warrant was for all gear I had. I
was never contacted and everything was returned freight a few weeks later.
They got:
An Atari 1200xl
MPP1000E modem - Neat. These were 300baud modems that could be software
adjusted on the fly in increments of 1 baud. Helpful to communicate with
other modems (standards and manufacturing were loose) and also allowed you
to bump the baud to infinity if you wanted to. Practically, 450 was the
max reliable baudrate for local calls.
Atari 1050 disk drive with US Doubler
Indus GT disk drive
Atari 1010 tape drive (cassette)
Brother EP22 thermal typewriter/serial printer
All media; disks, tapes, handwritten notes, documentation, cables, power
supplies, magazines, hardcopy... you name the media, they took it.
That was my system in 1983 --- You've come a long way baby.
I never did get the docs or mags back. Almost all the other media was
returned with the hardware. Missing a few disks, but I had all the ones I
thought were incriminating. They were unformatted disks. I wrote a
program in ML that wrote/read from them. I kept the Basic program and the
ML routines in my head and entered them manually when I wanted access.
The data was RLE encripted without passwords etc.
They kept my books and a few disks. I think they did this to educate
themselves.
When I was 17, I was got again. This time they got me good. Charges of
interstate wire fraud among others. My way out was do what I had been
doing for two more days. This time with an fbi tech weenie looking over
my shoulder and asking questions. They did charge me, but held those
charges from prosecution for a given period of time. If I'd gotten a
ticket for a suspended license they would re-activate them. That time has
long passed thank goodness.
Your's truely,
Jeff
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Jeffrey S. Worley
President
Complete Computer Services, Inc.
30 Greenwood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28803
828-277-5959
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