Security clamp on order at cyber cafe - eer not in China, in UK

[Yaman Akdeniz]

On 13 Jul 2000, at 20:38, lists@notatla.demon.co.uk wrote:

> I have not done an exhaustive study of the cafes; but as I have seen
> them they provide computers without removable magnetic media such as
> floppies.  This means that if you want to load your own software, carry
> away your collection of dodgy info etc you are probably limited to
> transferring it between different places on the net.

I certainly did see cafes with floppies as they allow people bringing 
their disks as they offer paid printing services. So I have not seen 
those odd ones without a floppy.

> Now if I make such
> a posting and am identified by cameras, passport and such are NCIS saying
> I have committed a crime ?  Or are they saying they want to prosecute
> people who have not committed crimes ?  

Carrying information which is not deemed illegal is not a crime, i.e. 
you can carry the Anarchist Handbook in your floppy while you cannot 
carry (or possess) child pornography.  

>Or they want to know who knows
> something that might help in a crime ?

God knows but I think they are not very much impressed with the 
widespread use of new technologies such as the Internet and mobile 
phones. Who knows what they think of WAP enabled mobile phones?

Yaman


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