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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,misc.legal,alt.censorship
Subject: Re: Do *NOT* reveal or mention "hacking" information (was Re: paper clip trick)
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Date: 17 Nov 90 22:23:41 GMT
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mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:

|In article <1990Nov14.195928.23480@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> slfields@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Scott L Fields) writes:
|>but I don't like the idea of this.

|Mere advocacy of an illegal activity is not conspiracy. Under federal
|law, a conspiracy requires two or more people who plan to commit a crime,
|plus an overt act by one of the people that furthers the plan.

|Thus, an isolated individual never can be convicted of conspiracy under
|federal law, even if he creates a plan and acts in furtherance of it.
|And two or more individuals cannot be convicted of conspiracy unless at
|least one of them commits an overt act that furthers the plan.



So if we discuss ways to break software and one of us uses this knowledge
to pirate software, then the feds can throw us all in jail for conspiracy.
At least that is the way I read what you just said.



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