legal game-theory, case for smart-contracts & snow crash (Re: <nettime> A CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison.)

[coderman]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Jim Bell <jamesdbell8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ...  Probably none of you reading the CP list
> have any idea what an atrocious history these cases had, especially Booker,
> but they are in large part why I have absolutely no confidence at all that
> the Federal 'criminal justice' system has any hope of being repaired, except
> perhaps by AP or 'denial of disservice attack' methods.


Jim, you're preaching to the choir.

i am certain that one day, on our present course, Booker reasoning
will be applied to CFAA conspiracy resulting in a grey hat hacker
convicted and sentenced under the most extreme interpretation of
potential harm for un-utilized 0day(s).

scores of lifetimes penance compelled for considering the
possibilities of the "weird machine"...

a brave new world indeed!