Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:40:39 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: [OT] New Anti-Terrorism Law makes "hacking" punishable by life in prison |
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On 24 Sep 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote: > I wonder if I could be put in jail next week because of all that stupid > cuecat stuff I was involved in?
The "WEP crack" fallout will be interesting to watch also.
In theory under the new law anyone whos computer was infected by nimda/codered could be imprisoned for life -- the new law says nothing about intent. So basically we would have a few million microsoft windows users serving life sentences...
-Dan
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