Re: CoS Raid on "Copyright Terrorist"

At 09:28 AM 8/14/95 -0400, Futplex wrote:
>Some CoS news:
>
>This past Saturday (95/08/12) a prominent Church of Scientology litigator,
>Helena Kobrin, and some U.S. federal marshals raided the home of Arnaldo
>Lerma, seizing pretty much all his computer hardware, disks, etc.

So why is it that people insist on listing their home addresses with their
ISP's rather than a mail receiving service or something else.  It is very
hard to raid a mail drop and obtain anything useful.  While it is true that
if you blow up buildings, the Fibbies may be able to find you, quite simple
techniques can frustrate even quite dedicated private parties.

DCF

"We warned you mental defectives back in '65 that the socialized medicine
offered by Medicare and Medicaid would be expensive, lousy, and eventually
not there at all but you didn't believe us.  Good luck."

> 
> At 09:28 AM 8/14/95 -0400, Futplex wrote:
> >Some CoS news:
> >
> >This past Saturday (95/08/12) a prominent Church of Scientology litigator,
> >Helena Kobrin, and some U.S. federal marshals raided the home of Arnaldo
> >Lerma, seizing pretty much all his computer hardware, disks, etc.
> 
> So why is it that people insist on listing their home addresses with their
> ISP's rather than a mail receiving service or something else.  It is very
> hard to raid a mail drop and obtain anything useful.  While it is true that
> if you blow up buildings, the Fibbies may be able to find you, quite simple
> techniques can frustrate even quite dedicated private parties.

  One of the reasons I used to receive all my mail at the "FSF" machines
(GNU.AI.MIT.EDU) was because I had a completely anonymous account. I had
the GNU account long before the FSF started registering people's 
name/phones, and I used to telnet into GNU from several completely
open annexes in Maryland. (the colleges would allow you to simply
telnet from the terminal server to anywhere with no restrictions.
This was back in 88-89 when the internet wasn't as big. Of course,
they shut it off later when outside users started busying up
the lines) And since I had root on the system, I could delete the
logs recording which IP addresses I was coming from.

Nowadays, a $10-20/mo maildrop at places like "Mailboxes, Etc" works fine.
(although there's still the possibility of them nabbing you when you go
to pick up the mail)

-Ray

Ray Cromwell writes:
 > Nowadays, a $10-20/mo maildrop at places like "Mailboxes, Etc" works fine.

Mailboxes Etc. insists on getting a picture ID; at least they did last
time I checked.  Some smaller mom&pop places will take a business card
(time to break out your Jim Rockford Business Card Fabrication Kit).

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On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Mike McNally wrote:

> Ray Cromwell writes:
>  > Nowadays, a $10-20/mo maildrop at places like "Mailboxes, Etc" works fine.
> 
> Mailboxes Etc. insists on getting a picture ID; at least they did last
> time I checked.  Some smaller mom&pop places will take a business card
> (time to break out your Jim Rockford Business Card Fabrication Kit).

Please, all you need is to go down to a computer time rental place that 
has a color scanner and a color printer and you can print any ID you like.
Take a picture of you, scan it in, bring it to a word processor or 
publisher program, write some text next to it like "Anon Y. Mouse Inc.
Joe Sixpack, Vice President of Operations, DOB: 4/1/69" print it, cut the
edges to make it look round, and get it laminated.  Instant I.D.

Worth as much as used toilet paper when it comes to your True Name.

I can do half the operation right now on my home machine.  Just have to 
get the camcorder out and hook it up to the video capture card to get the 
picture, then take it into Publish It Easy, write the text and put the 
picture next to it.  Only thing I'm missing is a color inkjet printer and 
a small laminator, but I can print to a poscript file, take the file to 
Kinko's or wherever and print it there, buy a laminator for $40 and I'm set.

Hell, another $200 and I can get a decent color printer too.

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