I agree with you about the laws being way too lenient. People abusing the internet should face very stiff penalties. Hackers can ruin a business and easily cause a great deal of damage to your personal life. I would hope that they are not allowed computer access once they are in prison. Alyson Beattie "There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats" Albert Schweitzer >From: Matt Harrison <mharrison82@xxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: citw150@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [citw150] Re: Randy L. Hankins CITW 150 L3,Q6 >Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 04:25:02 -0700 (PDT) > >One thing to remember though, and this comes from attending many security >conferences, is that with todays modern laws, a hacker is considered a >terrorist now and according to federal law a terrorist has no rights. So, >if you were caught hacking and they came to get you, they don't have to >read you your rights or even let you contact anyone. They do, however, >because they don't want to tie up money in lawsuites about not treating >someone fairly. > >-Matt >Randy Hankins <eatranman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Its me again: >Privacy issues are not look at enough in our society. Website break-in are >dealt with to slow and to kindly. Hacker today get only up to one year for >trespassing in your computer and five years for stealing money. Yet if you >steal money with a weapon you can get 15 to 20 years. Do you think a hacker >doesn't have a deadly weapon! Well he does if he breaks into your business >and destroys your important data and redirects all your finances to >them.But he might get 5 yrs for this crime which could affect you and all >your employees.The stiffest crime is stealing classified data which is >related to the government. That sound like treason which is punishable by >up to life in prison not up to 10 years that hackers would be subject >to.This website show how lightly we take hacker and the American people >need to wake up. >http://www.rednova.com/news/stories/3/2003/02/10/story012.html > > >Hi my name is Randy Hankins I am 48 year old college student and am >attending >Lansing Community college. I am a full time student taking 21 credits this >fall. >Give me a shout at eatranman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or eatranman on AIM. > > >"If we can't scare you we will kill you trying" attributed to D.D.Smyth of >local haunted house fame. > > > > > > > >