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Re: US Wiretaps Before 1968?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Minow)
Mon Sep 8 17:57:59 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03007803b03a0c9fa2ba@[172.17.1.150]>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:06:42 -0700
To: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>,
Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>,
Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
From: Martin Minow <minow@apple.com>
Cc: Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>, CRYPTOGRAPHY@c2.net
At 2:44 PM -0600 9/8/97, Rick Smith wrote:
>
>If Black's opinion eventually prevailed, I'd be interested to see whether
>the Court would consider hacking to be "search and seizure" requiring a
>court order.
>
Since hacking without a court order is, presumably, illegal. I would
suspect that evidence gained through hacking would be excluded as
"fruit from the poisonous tree." Of course, this means that it
would just be reported as a "tip from an anonomous source" or some such.
Martin Minow
minow@apple.com
