RE: Civil Disobedience

["pomalley(contr-ird)" <pomalley () snap org>]

This is just my 2cents worth but...

Has anyone bothered to read the bill as it was passed?  The bit about
hacking being punishable by life imprisonment was removed before it passed.


http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:2:./temp/~c107RpB60w::



-----Original Message-----
From: Felix von Leitner [mailto:leitner () convergence de]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 13:42
To: vuln-dev () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Civil Disobedience

Thus spake John Thornton (jthornton () hackersdigest com):
>  I ask each and every one of you to join me in this protest.

Why not conduct port scans from the IP of the White House, Capitol, CIA,
DEA and other law enforcement agencies and see whom the FBI arrests?

This is some serious shit, people!  Not reporting is not the way to go.
This law has to be proven ineffective and harmful.  That means:

  a. computer crime must not go down, or they will think the law was
     effective
  b. computer crim must not go up, or they will make laws with even more
     severe punishment.

Talk to your representatives about this!  Explain to them that this law
makes it impossible to learn computer security from the ground up, which
means that there will be no more qualified new computer security people
in ten years, which means all the good security companies will not be in
the USA, which means less jobs, less taxes and more poverty.

Felix