News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

Jim Choate ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Fri Nov 15 14:11:20 PST 2002


You only need to send it to the list, I'll get it ;)

I don't really like getting private email from total strangers. For
obvious reasons.


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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:

> Holy Shit!
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> Does that mean that some 18-year-old script kiddie could get LIFE?
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> If this wasn't such an immense pile of stupidity, I'd get angry over the
> obvious invasions of privacy, etc...
>
> Having worked in many a company, I KNOW how most management systems work.
> Let's say there's something as simple as a DoS attack that could take down
> Company A. Programmer Joe Shmo recognizes this and tells his boss, who wants
> to cover his own ass and tells HIS boss about the problem. This boss will
> then think about the issue for 3 seconds, and reply "well, hackers get life
> in prison now so no one will ever try it". Meanwhile, guys who don't care
> about getting life (Osama's posse, who probably won't even live in the US
> for this) will say: "Shit these guys are stupid! We just found a way to take
> down the whole US economy with 20 lines of code!"
>
> Send script kiddies away for life? How about sending the CTOs of publically
> traded companies away for life if something as simple as a DoS attack robs
> little old ladies of their retirement $?
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> >From: Jim Choate <ravage at einstein.ssz.com>
> >To: <cypherpunks at einstein.ssz.com>
> >CC: <hell at einstein.ssz.com>, <austin-cpunks at einstein.ssz.com>
> >Subject: News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)
> >Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:31:38 -0600 (CST)
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> >http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-965750.html
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