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Re: Most Say Computer Hacking Should Be a Felony
From: Grant Bayley <gbayley () AUSMAC NET>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 20:20:39 +1000
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, William Knowles wrote:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000828/zo/crime_1.html Monday August 28 2:44 PM ET UTICA, N.Y. (Reuters/Zogby) - Tampering with computers and the Internet should be charged as a felony, most Americans said in a recent nationwide survey. A Zogby America poll of 1,155 adults showed that 64.2% of respondents strongly agreed that interfering with Internet services should be considered a felony and punished severely. Another 24.1% somewhat agreed while a combined 8.3% strongly or somewhat disagreed. What we asked: ``How strongly do you agree or disagree that computer hacking, which disrupts Internet services provided by a company, should be considered a felony and a severely punished crime, strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree?''
It's just a shame that the spin on the results has little do with the scope of the question that was asked. I think a question suitably biased in the other direction towards a particular result would be evidence enough to confirm the absurdity of the conclusions of Zogby: ``How strongly do you agree or disagree that computer hacking, which has resulted in technologies such as the Internet, the Linux operating system and the Apache web server should be considered a noble and productive pursuit and praised accordingly? Strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree?'' Grant Bayley 2600 Australia ------------------------------------------------------- Grant Bayley gbayley () ausmac net -IT Manager @ Foster Nunn Loveder (www.fnl.com.au) -Admin @ AusMac Archive, Wiretapped.net, 2600 Australia www.ausmac.net www.wiretapped.net www.2600.org.au ------------------------------------------------------- ISN is hosted by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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