Re: James Bond Credit Card Lock Picks

["alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx>]

"R.H.Campbell" <rh.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Lockpicks are not something that should be freely available for obvious
> reasons. Many state legislatures feel the same way. That issue really has
> nothing to do with locking boards. Those who sell restricted tools with no
> control may in fact be breaking the law (although with todays wide open
> internet, it's not likely they would ever face any kind of retribution,
> which is probably exactly why they are able to get away with it....)
>
> Simply unlocking a board has nothing to do with the availability and sale
of
> restricted tools ! Even if the unlocking of a board could in fact be
> contributing towards theft, it doesn't fall in the same league as
> distributing tools that could cause potential public harm. In most
> jurisdictions, if you innocently buy a product from someone who is selling
> it second hand, and you buy it truly believing it to not be stolen, and it
> subsequently turns out to be indeed stolen, you still own it. No third
party
> can be held responsible for the acts of someone else if they purchased the
> goods innocently. I suspect the same legal logic would go for unlocking a
> stolen board as long as the party doing the unlocking didn't suspect it
was
> stolen (although that only deals with the legal perspective, not the moral
> one....).
>
> Sorry Jack, I can't explain it any better than that even if you see some
> irony in it.

No need to "explain" it to me, I understand it just fine.
js