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From: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AIDS Trojan - the Police charge a US Citizen
Message-ID: <1261@srhqla.SR.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 17:01:31 GMT
References: <266d.25c99ee0@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Reply-To: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <266d.25c99ee0@ibmpcug.co.uk> alanj@ibmpcug.CO.UK
(Alan Jay) writes:

>PS I think it is interesting that unlike the recent 'internet' case that
>the charge is blackmail.  I suspect that this is due to the current state
>of UK law.

It is due to the fact that in the Internet case, it was clear that there
was no intent to extort money from the sites affected.  In the AIDS trojan
case, it appears that the whole intent of the scheme was to get people to
send in money to obtain a 'cure' to the virus that was trashing data files.

Tim Meighan
Silent Radio