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Re: Rooted boxen and the law
From: Albert Meyer <albert () waller net>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 12:42:17 -0500
At 09:54 AM 6/5/01 -0700, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:
You may be able to report the case to the police as well, but unless you're heavily interested in pressing charges, chances are it'll just be filed and reported up the ladder to the feds anyhow.
Depends on your local police. Here in Austin they are surprisingly interested in prosecuting computer crime. A few months ago I had a client who hacked someone's website and left dirty fingerprints all over the place. In many locales nothing would have ever happened, but the police made an official request for logs, confiscated his computers, collected supporting evidence, and charged him with some sort of crime. I didn't follow up to see what the disposition was, but I suspect that he at least paid a hefty fine. In other areas I've seen the police completely clueless.
Current thread:
- Rooted boxen and the law Jamie Norwood (Jun 05)
- Re: Rooted boxen and the law Dalvenjah FoxFire (Jun 05)
- Re: Rooted boxen and the law Dalvenjah FoxFire (Jun 05)
- Re: Rooted boxen and the law Albert Meyer (Jun 05)
- Re: Rooted boxen and the law Scott Gifford (Jun 05)
- Re: Rooted boxen and the law Alexei Roudnev (Jun 05)
- Re: Rooted boxen and the law Dalvenjah FoxFire (Jun 05)