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Hackers are 'Terrorists' Under Ashcroft's New Act
Carlos writes "Most computer crimes are considered acts of terrorism under John Ashcroft's proposed 'Anti-Terrorism Act,' according to this story on SecurityFocus. The Act would abolish the statute of limitations for computer crime, retroactively, force convicted hackers to give the government DNA samples for a special federal database, and increase the maximum sentence for computer intrusion to life in prison. Harboring or providing advice to a hacker would be terrorism as well. This is on top of the expanded surveillance powers already reported on. The bill could be passed as early as this week. I feel safer already."
fp suckaz
i really hope you're just trolling and are not really as stupid as you sound.
Think twice before reporting a found security flaw to someone.
GAS!
I have GAS!
FUcking help me !!
After pounding on Nimda for the last SEVERAL days. I'd like to have choice things done to the coder that wrote it...Damn Bastich Terrorist
We also employ assassins... or we did, but we likely will again.
Guess what the easy solution to this dilemma is?
Don't break into anybody's computer.
Problem solved.
no no no, the worst they'll get is a white collar minimum security resort. did you know they have conjugal visits there?
You sir, are an idiot.
Thats not communism. That's fascism. Get it straight.
HA HA, yeah and what will you do when they
BOMB canada for harboring terrorists??????
Oh I forgot, they'll just distribute a list of
"known" hackers aka Terrorists and then canada
will round them up and ship them back to face
life in jail.
A Communist country where corporate American rules...This makes absolutely no sense. They are on two opposite ends of the economic spectrum. Ashcroft's views are probably some of the most anti-communist out there. The man is an idiot, but at least correctly quote where he stands.
Why the hell do people want to pick on computer criminals so much?
Yeah, but the CIA doesn't care about that, since it is legal for them to break the law. At least that's what they think.
so discussing security is now breaking the law.
You must NOT be a SYSADMIN.......or a troll....
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Bitch.
This almost sounds too easy....ah...fuggetaboutit.
If you like "don't" so much, why not go to a country where you HAVE no freedoms to begin with. I'll stay here with my friends and you go there with yours. We'll all be happy.
Thank you for missing the point of humor entirely.
Is John Ashcroft the Anti-Christ?
Yes. He is also the Cigarette Smoking Man.
Gotta love Office Space....
i got the joke.
Piss off the jackbooted thugs by doing something legal (like pointing out thier gross abuses of power) and then see if you think selective application of these new laws affects you.
MOD THIS UP!
fuck this is funny shit...
- Kaos games and encryption systems developer
I am well aware that nearly all fingers point to Usamah ibn Laden and that Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Taliban, is possibly harboring him and his cohorts. I am also aware that we (the U.S.) are about to bomb the shit out of Afghanistan to "have closure" or "send a message" or whatever the white trash meme of the day is.
Fact: The Bush Administration gave the Taliban ~$43 million only four months ago to "curtail opium production". How much could it possibly cost, in the world's poorest country, to behead someone with the sword at your side when you catch him with opium? If ibn Laden is guilty, and the Taliban guilty of supporting him, then Bush is complicit in financing him. This is the same Bush whose inheritance grows larger every time you buy a gallon of gas.
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
Hate to tell you, but America sorta already is that.
Hate to piss in your wheaties, but the 'cracker' and hacker goes back to Phrack Vol 1. 1985.
How can anyone be so stupid. Just shut up!
heh! heh! heh!
Look, Beavis. That guy used a cliche!
Jack booted thugs, indeed....
By 2100 - 100% of the us population will be in prison, on parole, or employed in the law enforcement
The US is the only western country whose politics is domininated by insane right wing - so called christian fanatics.
Give me Castro any day!
silverrouge@hotmail.com
Patch your servers. That isn't really all that hard. I'm not saying it will stop a persistant hacker(by the way, if someone opens my the window to my house and climbs in just to "look around", I will beat the snot out of them. He will wish he was in jail!), but it will stop the virus/worm crap.
I haven't been infected nor my clients by any of the worms this year. I just patch the OS/APP as the vendor makes them available.
different kind of cracking, genius.
Rage Against The Machine are a bunch of pseudo-rebellious wanks.
Only one answer to this shit and others (DMCA, SSSCA, Encryption backdoors, etc).. Rebel. Revolution. Now.
oops,
Sorry. I will open my eyes
OH, I JUST GOT IT!
This is all a ploy to get the evolution going again: Only the best of the brightest won't get caught and will get to make a pseudo-clone of themselves.
A couple of generations of this and we'll have even brighter script kiddies.
What a brilliant plan...
So do I...turns out she wasn't too vulerable and our relationship has gone bad so she's resorted to false accusations and ruined my chances with yer flock of cute friends :(
Zionism is racism you fucking prick.
If someone hacks VWs website and gets one of those new beetles sent to them for free should they be charged with auto theft?
Hacking into E*Trade and causing millions of dollars worth of malicious transactions is the digital equivalant of terrorism, an attack on financial infrastructure, and should be punished as such.
Defacing a website is the digital equivalant of spraying graffiti on a wall, a petty crime against personal property, and should be punished as such.
For digital crimes as well as old-fashioned ones, a distinction must be made as to the nature and magnitude of the offence.
Classifying script kiddies as terrorists is the moral equivalant of classifying shoplifting, speeding, or graffitti as terrorist acts. If we go down that path then, soon, everybody will be a terrorist.
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You did not bow down and preach the glories of Gnu/Slashdot, trollboy.
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