Xref: utzoo alt.security:1422 alt.folklore.computers:4872 comp.society.futures:2039 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!pacbell!att!mcdchg!laidbak!obdient!igloo!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: alt.security,alt.folklore.computers,comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime - Apology Message-ID: <2741@corpane.UUCP> Date: 21 Aug 90 17:37:33 GMT References: <90224.202102POPOVICH@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 21 jon@vector0 (A Product of Society) writes: >POPOVICH@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu (Peter Edward Popovich) writes: > I was busted and the feds laided 8 felony counts on me, basically >all the same: I called a number and connected. There was no damage, >I didn't even get to the login: prompt - the system needed special >software to connect to it. Sheesh! how can they arrest you for calling a phone number? If you didn't even get a login prompt, the the worst you were guilty of was dialing a phone number. You needed a better lawyer :-) -- John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash