Posted on 10/18/2001 1:30:08 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
SEC. 213. AUTHORITY FOR DELAYING NOTICE OF THE EXECUTION OF A WARRANT.
Section 3103a of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (1) by inserting `(a) IN GENERAL- ' before `In addition'; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
`(b) DELAY- With respect to the issuance of any warrant or court order under this section, or any other rule of law, to search for and seize any property or material that constitutes evidence of a criminal offense in violation of the laws of the United States, any notice required, or that may be required, to be given may be delayed if--
`(1) the court finds reasonable cause to believe that providing immediate notification of the execution of the warrant may have an adverse result (as defined in section 2705);
`(2) the warrant prohibits the seizure of any tangible property, any wire or electronic communication (as defined in section 2510), or, except as expressly provided in chapter 121, any stored wire or electronic information, except where the court finds reasonable necessity for the seizure; and
`(3) the warrant provides for the giving of such notice within a reasonable period of its execution, which period may thereafter be extended by the court for good cause shown.'.
This section authorizes un-elected, possibly unknown government bureaucrats, the absolute authority to secretly search American citizens homes and business, and not even inform that citizen that the search was made. This does not only apply to a suspected terrorist, but any suspicion, of anything.
Better hope Linux never becomes a mass-market operating system. Linux has been relatively ignored (along with Apple) by hackers and script kiddies mainly because its low market share makes it a less attractive target. There's no OpSys that can't be compromised, assuming someone wants to take the time.
???? Huh? PGP encrypts stuff. That's not what the guys talking about at all!! Scrubbing writes several 1's and 0's to every bit on the HD, so even an electron microscope can't make any sense of it.
Files can be saved to a "safe" on your hard drive, and no one but you will know they are there. Documents can be encrypted into picture files of any type, and stored without a hint that it is anything other than a picture of your favorite flower.
But if you are not logged in as root, the most they can do is screw with a few files and not compromise the system like windwos...If your logging in as root and are on the internet you almost deserve to get hacked.
No matter what OS, people need to be running firewalls.
"Personal" firewall programs are of variable quality (one such program closed port 80 and resisted all efforts to reopen it) and dubious reliability.
And HTML screen images can send secret messages also. Secret Message Enclosed:
Egads, I've been discovered!
Unix has open sockets as well Mr. Unix...
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