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              | Date: 2001-09-25 
 
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 q/depesche 01.9.25/1
 
 Lebenslang für *Computer-Verbrechen*?
 
 Das US-Justizministerium drängt auf schnelle Zustimmung zu
 seinem geplanten *Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)*, einem 25-seitigen
 Gesetztesantrag, welcher den Behörden die Legitimation zur
 allumfassenden Schnüffelei geben soll.
 
 Demnach sollen künftig *Computer-Verbrechen* als terroristische
 Akte gelten. Mit lebenslangen Haftstrafen. Unbedingt.
 
 Das kennen wir doch? Wenn es darum geht, die derzeitige
 Weltsituation samt den dazugehörigen Individuen "in den Griff zu
 bekommen", verstehen sich EU-und US-Behörden glänzend.
 Siehe dazu q/depesche 01.9.24/2:
 http://www.quintessenz.at/archiv/msg01644.html
 
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 Most of the terrorism offenses are violent crimes, or crimes
 involving chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. But the
 list also includes the provisions of the Computer Fraud and
 Abuse Act that make it illegal to crack a computer for the
 purpose of obtaining anything of value, or to deliberately
 cause damage. Likewise, launching a malicious program that
 harms a system, like a virus, or making an extortionate
 threat to damage a computer are included in the definition
 of terrorism.
 
 To date no terrorists are known to have violated the Computer
 Fraud and Abuse Act. But several recent hacker cases would
 have qualified as "Federal terrorism offenses" under the
 Justice Department proposal, including the conviction of
 Patrick Gregory, a prolific web site defacer who called
 himself "MostHateD"; Kevin Mitnick, who plead guilty to
 penetrating corporate networks and downloading proprietary
 software; Jonathan "Gatsby" Bosanac, who received 18-months
 in custody for cracking telephone company computers; and Eric
 Burns, the Shoreline, Washington hacker who scrawled "Crystal,
 I love you" on a United States Information Agency web site in
 1999. The 19-year-old was reportedly trying to impress a classmate
 with whom he was infatuated.
 [..]
 
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 published on: 2001-09-25
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