Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:21:01 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [OT] New Anti-Terrorism Law makes "hacking" punishable by life in prison |
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Hi!
> > 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...
It would be fun to try to enforce that. Few million windows users in jail -- that sounds like bad enough to kill stupid law. Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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