[WEB4LIB] Re: FBI to monitor libraries

[Daniel Messer]

"Andrew K. Pace" <andrew_pace at ncsu.edu> said:

> as soon as possible.  otherwise, log files are asking for a subpoena.  i 
never
> thought about them taking backup tapes, i'm more worried about them hauling 
away
> an entire server!

As well you should be. As it stands, they'd take everything that they can get 
their hands on, servers, tapes, hardcopies, etc. If someone doesn't think 
they will, I refer you all back to the incident involving Steve Jackson 
Games, maker of a role playing game called GURPS Cyberpunk. The Secret 
Service raided their offices and took pretty much everything as they were 
under the impression that the game and associated books served as a manual 
for hacking and cracking. For more information refer to the link:

http://www.2600.com/secret/sj.html

> i'm even worried that these opinions are now officially registered with the
> dept. of justice.

As well you should be. The FBI has made it very clear that they would monitor 
libraries because the terrorists involved in 9/11 used computers at libraries 
for e-mail access and the like. When the FBI talks monitoring and spying on 
Americans, the word library usually comes up in the conversation.

Dan 

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Daniel Messer
Assistant Circulation Manager
Yakima Valley Regional Library
dmesser at yvrl.org
509-452-8541 ext 761
102 N 3rd St  Yakima, WA  98901
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