FC: Secret Service returns Gold-Age's computers after raid in March

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

See also:

"U.S. Secret Service raids E-Gold currency exchanger"
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01871.html


----- Forwarded message from "Parker E.C. Bradley" <admin () goldcom cc> -----

From: "Parker E.C. Bradley" <admin () goldcom cc>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:27:53 -0400
Organization: GoldCom, Corp.

For more info or to make a donation see http://www.gold-age/ldf/ldf.html

Update 07/24/2001:   Tuesday last week (07/17/2001) the SS returned most
of the items they stole from us last March -- though we had to come pick
them up ourselves, and there are still some items missing. Some items of
note that they stole
and have not returned are as follows. We added these items and other
comments to the inventory receipt. Interestingly, they signed this
revised sheet... thus acknowledging the absence of these items. (The
revised "Certified Inventory of Personal Property" they signed, dated,
and marked with the "received - U.S. Secret Service" stamp.) 

*     Research notes & CD on HARP/Cannon Project. [These are 
notes/contacts/schematics/CAD drawings, etc, and  releated CD with
computer simulations involving a new launch system for low earth orbit.
This research is based on  previous work by the late Dr. Gerald Bull and
his brilliant HARP program.]
 
*     New York State Truck Title for my 93 Ford Ranger. 
*     Ayn Rand Anniverary Boxed set of Books [was to be a birthday gift
for my  sister] 
*     Handful of quarters & misc. change. [We're SURE this will be
returned, ha, ha] 
*     Lug nuts from Joanna's car {An interesting little story there...
for later       disclosure.] 
*     Set of inks for inkjet refill kit. 

There may be other items missing as well, but it will be difficult if
not impossible to tell immediately, especially in regards to paperwork.

 An interesting side note. On one of the tower computers that was
returned, I was locked out of the CMOS (apparently, they changed the
password -- I'll have to remove the internal battery and clear the
CMOS), and the system currently can't even boot because of hard disk
failure. (The other tower they stole was a new machine that I was in the
process of putting together, and didn't have much of significance on
it). The laptop has also been tampered with, too... aside from the legs
being broken off, I'm locked out of this machine as well; they changed
the CMOS password, but being a laptop it's not as simple a matter, as
with the tower, to reset the CMOS -- I'll have to get specs from HP
before I go taking this baby apart. In short it's going to take quite a
bit of time and effort to figure out if there is any data intact for me
to recover on either of these machines. This kind of destructive
data-mining was totally unecessary, since I gave them all the passwords
to the various systems they took. 

http://www.gold-age/ldf/ldf.html


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