News: House votes life sentences for hackers (fwd)

[Declan McCullagh]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:48:37PM -0500, Dave Emery wrote:
> 	I might hasten to add that as I am sure Declan knows, this
> addition to the Homeland Defense Act also includes the CSEA provisions
> that turn hobby listening to certain easy to receive but off limit
> radio signals from an offense with a maximum penalty of a $500 fine
> to a federal felony with 5 years in prison as penalty.

Dave,
Thanks for the details about the hobby listening. I looked through
the bill quickly again, and couldn't find the prohibitions you describe.

The bill as passed by the House is here, with the Senate version near-
identical:
http://www.house.gov/rules/homeland.pdf

Got a page number?

-Declan