Re: E-Mail Hacking Case Could Redefine Online Privacy

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Date sent:              Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:44:51 -0700
From:                   Logan Browne <logan () trlrd com>

> While the 9th Circuit has made some odd rulings, this really does
> confuse me. I suspect that the judge had some very bad information
> from technical advisers in making this decision, because the email was
> clearly taken from a computer to which Anderson did not have
> authorized access. Analogies to postal system or telephone system
> aside, these were stolen goods that were sold.

Actually, thinking further about my phone/post analogy, I realized I was dealing in 
historical terms.  With modern phone systems everything is digital, and even 
there, the "conversation" is briefly "at rest" in some chip while on en route ...

======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
My spirit is broken, my days are cut short, the grave awaits me.
Surely mockers surround me; my eyes must dwell on their
hostility.                                              - Job 17:1,2
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