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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: illegal for private citizens to own
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:46:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.184650.3808@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1992Dec30.003807.10916@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
- >dcb@rosedale.uucp (Dave Breneman) in Newsgroup: alt.beer,
- >Message-ID: <1992Dec20.221436.2181@rosedale.uucp> writes:
- >
- >>I've got a copy of a paperback book put out by the Washington State Patrol
- >>called something like "Identifying Counterfiet ID". It also has a big
- >>warning on the back along the lines of "Unlawful for private citizens
- >>to posess this publication."
- >
- > I believe this to be true. However, is this type of law
- >enforceable, or ever been enforced? I saw nothing in the FAQ
- >about this kind of stuff. Lots of written material is illegal to
- >own, justified by national security or industrial espionage
- >concerns, but this type of book doesn't seem to qualify.
-
- My favourite government organisation, emergency services canada,
- prints some publications which are supposed to be distributed on a
- 'need to know' basis. Being underfunded and undermanned, they don't
- want to bother chasing down people who have mistakenly been supplied
- with restricted documents (As I was), so one way of demonstrating
- need-to-know is possessing a need-to-know document. The logic is that
- no-one would bother acquiring the documents unless they had a need-
- to-know what was in them.
-
- James Nicoll
-