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Re: UK searching traveler's disk drives for pornography (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vinton g. cerf)
Sun Jul 23 03:52:20 2000
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:16:28 -0400
From: "vinton g. cerf" <vcerf@MCI.NET>
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To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>,
Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>,
David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: Jurgen Botz <jurgen@botz.org>, "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>,
cryptography@c2.net
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this may well be an echo of an earlier story and that may or may not have
been a hoax. If Ken Cukier really wrote the story, even if 2 years ago,
there's a good chance it is accurate since Ken is usually pretty careful.
vint
At 10:51 PM 7/21/2000 -0500, John Kelsey wrote:
>Wasn't there a story very much like this, a year or two ago, that turned
>out to be a hoax? I suspect the Customs people could get away with all
>kinds of nonsense, but is there any independent documentation that they
>really are getting away with it right now?
>
>--John
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