Posted on 09/24/2001 3:07:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The danger here is that people who know nothing about computers consider all programming tools and activities to be "hacking."
These laws will be created and administered by technological retards. Doesn't that scare you?
Maybe we'll see some fantasy movie soon titled "Death of a Hacker."
I don't know about that, but part of what it means is anybody who does web programming could be defined as a hacker by the kind of technological retards we have in the legislature and justice department.
Frankly, I'd use the death penalty on the bastards.
Paul C. Jesup
So, say you accidentally leave the door to your house unlocked and the guy across the street comes over to borrow your weedwhacker while you're not home. He knocks on the door and nobody answers. He gives the doorhandle a twist and notices it's unlocked. "Hmmm," he says to himself, "I wonder what ol' E. Pluribus Unum keeps in his underwear drawer?" So, he walks right in and starts snooping around. Shouldn't he have stayed out of the house?
We are talking about hackers, not murders or rapists. Noone gets hurt. Noone gets killed. Sheesh, even Manson comes up for parole once a decade. But not hackers?!
If they are really serious about imprisoning people for causing undue stress, then they should go straight to Redmond and knock on Bill's door. After all, without MS Windows, 99% of the virus software wouldn't work.
BTW, email attachments are not viruses. They are just programs that someone is stupid enough to run without knowing its effects.
When you play, you pay. It's kinda like STD's. It was fun til payback time.
Life just isn't fair, is it kids?
The shape of the universe has changed, and proportion along with it. We've needed a good excuse to stop this crap and I personally don't mind giving a "grow up" lesson to our bratty, perpetual adolescent hacker population now that the destiny of the free world is on the line.
Bill Gates will have too much to worry about. Like everyone else that has been at this from the beginning, he has no hope of defending against a "Hacking" indictment. After Dollar Bill plea bargains a suspended sentence and lifetime parole he'll do as he is told about hiding a back door in all operting systems, or anything else they want. Activate your microphone and/or webcam without you knowing it? of course. If no one knows they can do it, they won't need a court order.
So9
If your neighbor does that, it is simple trespass, a misdemeanor. It sure isn't life without parole.
So9
What does this mean?
LOL! That’s sort of an old 1950s anti-Commie term.
No, it hasn't. If I were to purposefully tamper with someone's auto, say deliberately disable the brakes and the owner of the automobile is killed in the ensuing crash, then that is murder. The same goes with a computer system. Let's say I use my computer to break into some company and purposefully alter the control mechanism of heavy machinery leading to someone's death, sure.
But the act of using a computer to wrongfully intrude into someone else's computer, is trespassing not murder. Wrongfully intruding and copying data, is trespassing and theft.
Sorry, but it's my opinion you are over-reacting.
Considering the response so far, most of you would be up on charges in no time. You could easily transmit a virus by simply browsing a webpage. If you are running Windows, there are ways to make data *look* like it came from your machine, thereby framing you.
How's that for a wake up call, you techno-moron.
That's right, it turns into murder and should be prosecuted as murder, not by giving life without parole for hacking.
The proposed law is so broad that anyone who has ever looked at a copy of "2600" on the newstand could be convicted if they want to.
So9
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