Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Steve Jackson Games Search Warrant Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 23:46:01 GMT References: <1990Nov14.151548.6650@eff.org> <1990Nov16.215719.12860@eff.org> <1990Nov18.034409.1833@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 19 I realize this is slightly off the beaten track, but worth pointing out.] Greg, it's much worse than just lockpick tools. There are a bunch of statutes that are now getting some exercise involving ``unauthorized access'', ``computer fraud'', ``conspiracy to commit computer fraud'' which have some real scary language in them, apparently. According to the law that the prosecutor cited (I don't have it in front of me, sorry), any device that can be used to ``access'' information covered under the various clauses is contraband under certain circumstances. The way this prosecutor made his case, YOUR FINGERS COULD BE SUCH DEVICES. A TELEPHONE COULD COULD BE SUCH A DEVICE. If you have one of those credit card point of sale terminals, you'd better be EXTREMELY CAREFUL. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]