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Article #1910Re: the Right of Privacy
From: Gordon Burditt
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:33
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:33
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> If government agents *have* a warrant, would an attempt to prevent > their entry into a house be considered "legal"? Is secretly-held Yes. Attempts made to prevent their entry into the house *BEFORE* the warrant was presented are certainly legal. Or did you intend to outlaw door locks? Or doors? Safes? Walls with holes in them? Yards with dirt that you can bury something in? I think encryption falls into this category. Quickly encrypting the data when you hear the police demanding entry may be illegal (obstruction of justice, or some such charge). Nobody does that anyway. They destroy the evidence. Gordon L. Burditt sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!news.uta.edu!utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!sneaky!gordon From: gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt) Subject: Re: the Right of Privacy Message-ID: <Bxtt3F.32K@sneaky.lonestar.org> Organization: Gordon Burditt References: <1992Oct28.111437.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <1992Nov12.063300.12408@seanews.akita.com> <1992Nov12.202606.22666@cactus.org> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:33:07 GMT Lines: 15