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IP: Need for hacker laws downplayed
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 05:38:28 -0500
WASHINGTON (AP) - Even amid dramatic attacks by cyber vandals on some of the Internet's flagship Web sites, the nation's technology industry appears reluctant to ask Congress for new or expanded anti-hacker measures. The industry appears to be maintaining its traditional reluctance against inviting government into its affairs, even in its defense against hackers and online vandals. Those sentiments, expected to be delivered to lawmakers at a congressional hearing Tuesday, illustrate the gulf between Washington and the high-tech industry beyond the 2,400 miles physically separating the epicenters of the two cultures. Panels from the House and Senate Judiciary committees organized Tuesday's hearing to determine what changes, if any, they need to make to existing crime laws in the wake of electronic attacks earlier in February that disrupted for hours Web sites run by Yahoo!, Amazon.Com, eBay, ETrade and others. see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564631209-a2b
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