Re: Cracked; rootkit - entrapment question?

[dbrumley () RTFM STANFORD EDU (David Brumley)]

Read:
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html
for the actual statute.  After that it's a matter of being a priority for
the FBI (I'm sure they are overworked and have to take cases they think
have a reasonable chance of success).

-david.

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Robert G. Ferrell wrote:

> > I keep reading various news articles that indicate that federal law
> > currently states that the FBI is not allowed to investigate if they believe
> > that the damage is under 5,000 dollars per computer
>
> It really isn't a matter of not being "allowed" to investigate; it's more that
> they have great difficulty getting the US Attorney's Office to prosecute cases
> where significant monetary damage isn't demonstrated.  You see, once a year they
> have to justify their budget requests to Congress.  Congress likes to see hard
> figures.  They don't appropriate money for investigating "loss of trust" in a
> company due to an intrusion.
>
> I've seen signs that this attitude may be changing, but it's a very slooooow
> process.
>
> RGF
>
> Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP
> Information Security Officer
> National Business Center, US DoI
> Robert_G_Ferrell () nbc gov
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Nothing I have ever said should be construed as even vaguely
> representing an official statement by the NBC or DoI.
> ------------------------------------------------------------

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