[51707] in Cypherpunks
Re: hammers, crowbars and remailers & Leahy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan B. McCullagh)
Fri Mar 8 19:51:09 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:14:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc:
In-Reply-To: <9603082223.AA05907@cti02.citenet.net>
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
