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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: legal question re anonymity online
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.93Jan12022133@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 07:21:33 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: mkj@world.std.com's message of 10 Jan 93 01: 43:06 GMT
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- Re: what real harm could come from anonymous users?
-
- True example: a system I was on had a user who sent death threats to a
- former professor. The user name turned out to be a fake. There was
- some reason to believe that the threats might have been serious
- (memory fails; I think it was the degree of detail in the threats.)
- Now, aside from the fact that sending death threats is itself a
- crime, finding the person would have helped the police resolve the
- threat and determine whether the recipient was in real danger.
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