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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:10:38 -0700
Subject: Fwd: terrorist -> computer use -> RICO
From: Faisal Jawdat <faisal_at_faisal.com>
To: declan_at_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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