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Subject: RE: I've Been Framed From: "Christian, James" <jchristi@cbcag.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:15:09 -0500 snip ----- and since your ISP's servers hold evidence that may be valuable to your defense it would be prudent to try and have the ISP's servers seized immediately both as defense evidence and for use in a counter suit so that you and your attorney can examine the evidence in time to prepare a defense before the ISP has time to doctor the logs and security system. ----- snip ----- As good as it would feel to have the ISP's servers confiscated, chances are that it won't happen. I worked for an ISP that was cracked by the owner and several employees of another ISP. There was sufficient evidence to warrant a police raid on their office, but the police could not touch the servers because they were public machines that contained the private information (e-mail and such) of the ISP's clients. That part makes it much harder. You may be able to make them turn over a copy of logs from that time period, but I doubt you'll get the machine. Bummer! :) ===