Re: I suppose it is a fake thing or a misunderstanding :?

[Julio Canto <jcanto () hispasec com>]

Vitaly McLain escribió:
> Julio Canto wrote:
> > http://www.gearlog.com/2008/06/new_texas_law_requires_pi_lice.php
> >
> > "A recently passed law requires that Texas computer-repair technicians 
> > have a private-investigator license, according to a story posted by a 
> > Dallas-Fort Worth CW affiliate."
> >   
>
> This is just a case of Slashdot and similar sites reporting something 
> with a misleading, sensationalist headline and their version of the 
> truth spreading. Read into it more and you'll realize it has little to 
> do with computer repair and more with computer forensics and other 
> investigative work. It certainly may have an impact on security 
> professionals who work in the state, but I don't think it's as 
> overreaching as the Internet makes it out to be.


It sounds indeed as something too stupid to be true. Probably anybody 
able to read this whole thing...

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/80R/billtext/html/HB02833F.htm

... without dying of legal-mumbo-junbo over-exposure could really know 
what's going on :?

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