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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Re: "The Scene of the Crime"
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Date: 3 Oct 90 23:04:42 GMT
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In article <3398@mindlink.UUCP> a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) writes:
>Does anybody know how computer crime across international boundaries is going
>to be dealt with?  With the current telecommunications system, it's become
>obvious that you could be halfway across the world from the "scene of the
>crime."

I would assume this is dealt with in extradtion (sic) treaties.  The
Nova special mentioned that the German crackers had to be tried in
Germany.  Now that I think about it, that might have been because they
really didn't do too much here (proveable in court) that they could be
charged with.
(ie: breaking into a university computer and not damaging anything.)
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