[IP] note old scifi ref IP address typo leads to a false arrest in Kansas [priv]
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From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 13, 2005 2:44:37 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, 'Declan McCullagh' <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] IP address typo leads to a false arrest in Kansas
[priv]
At 11:14 AM 9/13/2005, David Farber wrote:
From: Richard M. Smith <rms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan@xxxxxxxx>
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/news/local/crime_courts/12620843.htm
Brian and Sarah Doom were shocked when police showed up at their
Wichita
home accusing them of child pornography.
It could have been worse... a little Googling by the police might
have revealed that the Dooms possessed numerous exotic weapons,
including a so-called "Big F***ing Gun," and spent their time blowing
up barrels of toxic waste and head-shooting anyone who came at them...
The story of the poor Dooms recalls Gordon R. Dickson's "Computers
Don't Argue," first published in 1965 in "Analog," and available to
read here: http://atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133 (pages
133-137).
Ross
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Ross Stapleton-Gray, Ph.D.
Stapleton-Gray & Associates, Inc.
http://www.stapleton-gray.com
http://www.sortingdoor.com
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