Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpda!gag From: gag@hpda.UUCP (gag) Newsgroups: net.crypt Subject: Re: Criminal Cryptography? Message-ID: <28700001@hpda.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 20:00:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpda.28700001 Posted: Tue Oct 16 20:00:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Oct-84 06:29:26 EST References: <99@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Cupertino, CA Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:utcsrgv:-9900:hpda:28700001:000:839 Nf-From: hpda!gag Oct 24 16:00:00 1984 /***** hpda:net.crypt / utcsrgv!outer / 6:37 pm Oct 15, 1984*/ The Toronto *Globe and Mail* of 8410.08 had a front-page story concerning a novel computer crime: long-distance data encryption. The circumstances surrounding the case weren't made clear, but the gist was that the principals of a Toronto-based computer firm were being tried in Ontario for encrypting a U.S. data base via a long-distance modem link. These were *criminal* charges, and one of the issues concerned the definition of "property": by effectively denying the owner of the data access to it, had they destroyed anything (the tape was still there!) ? Does anyone know any more about this? Similar cases in other jurisdictions? -- Richard Outerbridge 416 978 2742 Payload Deliveries: N 41 39'36", W 79 23'42", Elev. 106.47m. /* ---------- */