Re: [OT] New Anti-Terrorism Law makes "hacking" punishable by life in prison

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:18:47 +0000


Hi!

> > If this passes, everyone working in computer security can be arrested and thrown in prison for life. In addition, people such as Kevin Mitnick can be thrown
> > back in prison even though they have already paid for their crime (double jeopardy?).

Is that proposed law or did it pass through senate/president?

If it is real law... I could proably get few free places in anti-nuclear
bunker under Prague ;-).
Pavel

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