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> Pre-internet, it feels like a warrant for anyone that ran their finger down page xyz of the phone book. More like inquiring for / looking at certain books in
by mywittyname 5y ago
> Pre-internet, it feels like a warrant for anyone that ran their finger down page xyz of the phone book.
More like inquiring for / looking at certain books in the library. Which is something I'm sure happened all the time, historically.
- tyingq 5y ago>in the library Maybe, if "in the library" means "in almost every library in the nation for each warrant".
- mywittyname 5y agoSure, but it is still possible. Libraries are historically very well organized. It would be completely feasible to have libraries send over the names of people who checked out certain books on some regular cadence. The Dewey Decimal system already classifies every book by topic, so it would be practical to document every person that checked out a book under, for example, 662 Explosives, Fuels.