Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis
From: dfrancis@tronsbox.UUCP (Dennis Francis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Secret Service's hackers roundup
Message-ID: <265e0c9d-2081.5comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 90 06:00:37 GMT
References: <20017@snow-white.udel.EDU> <24887@usc.edu>
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|You fail to mention that part of the stolen property were credit card
|numbers used for purchases. I wonder if you'd feel different if YOUR
|credit card number were stolen.  As far as I am concerned, stealing
|credit card numbers should be treated as any other felony of that
|type.  Crime is crime, no matter what color.

	I just dug up my copy of the indictment- twice, it alleges that the
Legion of Doom was a "group involved in the theft of credit information"
and so on.  It DOESN'T charge the defendents with credit fraud/theft...just
with being members of the LoD.  And the aforementioned theft of the 911 docs.
	In other words, it doesn't charge anyone with any specific instances
of credit theft.  That's not what got them busted.

|>       My sister's part of the same "hacker underground" as these people...
|
|You're in a tough spot for sure to judge.

	Well, I keep expecting the Stosstruppen to come take my Amiga away-
she uses it to supply her readers with disks full of back issues of her
activist newsletter in Amiga, MS-DOS and ST formats, and if they bust her for
having an activist BBS (on her C-64...) they're going to take everything in 
the house with a microprocessor in it.

	You're out of line if you're casting aspersions on my objectivity for
daring to hear what the other side has to say.


Dennis Francis Heffernan	|  "The condition upon which God
dfrancis@tronsbox		|   has given liberty to man
...uunet!tronsbox!dfrancis	|   is eternal vigilance."
				|   -John Philpot Curran