Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!sjc!spider!leia!harkcom From: harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.CO.JP (Alton Harkcom) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 13:38:28 GMT References: <9008271953.AA09290@stdc.jhuapl.edu> Sender: news@leia.pa.yokogawa.co.jp Organization: Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Lines: 22 In-reply-to: jwm@STDC.JHUAPL.EDU's message of 27 Aug 90 19:53:12 GMT In article <9008271953.AA09290@stdc.jhuapl.edu> jwm@STDC.JHUAPL.EDU (Jim Meritt) writes: =}What we don't know that is relevant: What were the charges? If they =}were eight separate charges for one instance, that is one thing. If it =}is eight charges for eight separate instances, I would say that the =}"knowingly" is pretty open-and-shut. By the seventh time you should =}know d@mn well what you are calling. Suppose I am trying to connect to what I think is a public BBS and keep getting a login prompt with no oreganization ID. I get pissed and keep trying to login as it was explained to me by the director of the BBS. After 8 attempts, the feds show up and take everything I own, slap fines on me that I can't pay without a job (who will hire a criminal hacker?), and lock me up for quite a while with murderers and rapists (and the other people who tried to access the BBS). Open and Shut. Open your mouths and shut your minds is the motto of mordern government... -- -- $@2#2OEE5!3t<02q