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From: Carl M. Kadie
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:14
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:14
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bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes: [...] >If I take a friend out on my boat, and he happens to have some >marijuana in his pocket that I don't know about, _my_ boat can be >confiscated because I'm considered to be trafficing in marijuana. >Likewise, computer hardware can be confiscated if various evidence of >criminal activity is found on it, even if it was not known or >approved of by the hardware's owners. [...] I think you are confusing civil forfeiture, where the government claims ownership of the "drug boat", with impounding of evidence, where the government holds possible evidence of a crime for a while. I've never heard of the government applying civil forfeiture to computer crimes. Also, I believe that after the Steve Austin incident the government is being more careful with what it impounds. - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Newsgroups: news.admin.policy,news.admin,news.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Subject: Re: a.b.p.e distribution, pay membership (Was: RE: Child Pornography) Message-ID: <BxnuBM.HqL@cs.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL References: <1992Nov10.074320.5826@ais.com> <EMCGUIRE.92Nov11161022@fuller.intellection.com> <1992Nov13.082629.5832@ais.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:14:09 GMT Lines: 21