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From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Great idea but unfeasible. In Virginia, this would be considered
malicious
programming and probably computer trespass as well :-(
I used to live in Virginia and I don't miss that place. I cringe even
when I have to drive through it :)
Only place I know that you could hinder the efforts of a criminal
organization and spend 10x more time in jail than they do.......
I used to have a similar view that it was too conservative in Virginia as
well but I've grown older and seen more reasons that the conservative stance
just "works". I also haven't heard of many cases where people were
convicted and given unreasonable sentences despite the laws that were on the
books for technology.
For example, people used to have firewalls that when attacked would launch a
counterattack automatically. Sounded like a great idea until the majority
of attacks began occurring from owned machines or people would forge attacks
to create a DoS.
Same thing happened with viruses. Great idea to notify people that they
have sent you a virus until you realize that you are actually sometimes part
of a DoS because the headers are all forged.
And, I also remember when programmers would add malicious code to their own
programs so that if people pirated it, the software would do nasty things to
the computer's hard drive or the files. All well and good until technology
changed or parallel port timing went wonky a few times and innocent people's
hard drives were wiped and 3D studio meshes were corrupted.
Anyway, the philosophy of two wrongs don't make a right is a sane solution
that has lasted through more than a decade of changes in the technology
field which is pretty good when you think about it.
Regards,
KAM
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