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FC: Bush administration hopes to make computer crime a terrorist act
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 02:08:40 -0400
******** Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:10:38 -0700 Subject: Fwd: terrorist -> computer use -> RICO From: Faisal Jawdat <faisal () faisal com> To: declan () well com I just sent this to Dave Farber. Not sure if you'd seen it. -faisal
SecurityFocus reports that the new anti-terrorism bill makes computer crime a terrorist act: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/257 This is frightening. Putting computer crime under the scope of RICO will allow the authorities to confiscate computer equipment for nothing more than a suspicion that it was used for computer crime. If our experience with the drug war is any indication, the police will be able to use the fact that you had a computer as indicative of the fact that it was used in a computer crime. On top of that, we still don't have a good definition of computer crime, so a system administrator who installs a screensaver that their employer doesn't like could get life in prison with no possibility of parole. -faisal
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