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Re: US Secret Service checking laptops at airports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ioannidis)
Mon Oct 5 12:11:48 1998
From: John Ioannidis <ji@research.att.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:10:40 -0400 (EDT)
To: cryptography@c2.net, sidney@communities.com
Interesting story, assuming it is true and not FUD.
Did your friend ask the SS people to show IDs? Did she write down their
names? Can she substantiate the story? For that matter, can *you* really
substantiate the story?
I'm not defending the Secret Service, I'm merely suggesting that FOAF
stories do not belong in this forum, no matter how much they may appeal
to our collective paranoia.
/ji
