another fbi prosecution

[Rich Graves]

On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> At 07:30 AM 12/5/95 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> > sophomore Dominick LaScala was charged last week in federal court with two 
> > counts of computer fraud.
> 
> I thought fraud was obtaining something of value by false pretenses or
> uttering a false document or something.  Doesn't sound like fraud to me.

I think they're referring to at least one of the accounts being obtained
under false pretenses, and the From: lines (and probably Message-ID,
Received, etc) being forged. 

Which would still be an interesting precedent, yes.

-rich