🚀 go-pugleaf

the Secret Service to admit in court that this was
done to "investigate hacking into a company's telephone switch."

Since when did the "investigative" techniques used by the Secret Service
become valid for use in the United States? Going up to a bunch of mall
patrons and DEMANDING IDENTIFICATION from them and searching them?

How exactly was this supposed to further investigate a switch hacking?

For extended details of this governmental persecution of the politically
incorrect, see http://www.2600.com.


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               Secret Service: Vile Persecution of Ed Cummings
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Source material from http://www.2600.com, by someone calling themselves
"Emmanuel Goldstein", which in the book '1984' was known as the Hated Enemy
of the People.

2600, "The Hacker's Quarterly", is unhappy about what the Secret Service
did to one of its correspondents, Ed Cummings.
 
>   The Secret Service has locked Ed Cummings up with violent criminals for
>   nearly a year, solely because of his possession of written material,
>   software, and bits of hardware. In other words, not much at all.
 
First, some background:
 
Ed Cummings was on probation for removing batteries from a tone dialer.
 
>   All of this stems from an incident years ago when Cummings and two
>   friends were being questioned by a Northampton County police officer.
>   
>   He had asked them about a tone dialer they had and, while he went into
>   a