Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: "The Scene of the Crime" Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 20:50:50 GMT References: <3398@mindlink.UUCP> <1990Oct3.230442.21336@lavaca.uh.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 32 In-reply-to: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu's message of 3 Oct 90 23:04:42 GMT In article <1990Oct3.230442.21336@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes: | Path: paperboy!snorkelwacker!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet | From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) | Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk | Date: 3 Oct 90 23:04:42 GMT | References: <3398@mindlink.UUCP> | Sender: nntppost@lavaca.uh.edu (NNTP Posting Service) | Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics | Lines: 17 | | 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.) I just watched the special last night, and they said that 1) there was no current extradition for computer crimes between USA & Germany; and 2) the German laws were tougher than the USA's. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?