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House OKs Life Sentences For Hackers
ByteHog writes "The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Monday to create a new punishment of life imprisonment for malicious computer hackers. The article on MSNBC also mentions that police can conduct internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order. Says a Rep from Texas: 'A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.'" Other articles can be found here and the text of the bill is available.
Yes the wonderful ACLU. Same folks who insure that we only have to go the library or schools to surf porn.
"never met a Microsoft zealot"
or Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison? Do they allow congical visits? Seriously though. This seems quite harsh.
john lind gets 20 years, murderers get less (sometimes), but we'll throw the damned hackers away for life. why? they're evil i tells ye, EVIL!!!
in america, your sentence depends largely on how much damage you can do to any said corporation. whether or not you choose to believe it, that is the way that it is. hackers (as you've been told before, dummy) pose one of the largest potential threats to corporations losing money. i'm guessing that this should allow a corporation to get away with failing to secure client records and other pertinent information in the most secure and effective manner. "it was the hacker's fault"...
i'd dedicate my life to getting this kicked back, but there's more injustice out there. it's just another item to worry about for those of us who actually give a crap.
The united state's government is utterly responsible for the calamity that ensued on september 11th. They have been giving weapons to lunatics for 50 years to fuel the arm's trade. Here is a question, "What is the United States main export?"
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Who wants to move to Russia with me so we can be free again?
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 -- Mathematics is the Language of Nature.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
With the federalization of airport security, the never-ending barrage of new and intrusive legislation (DMCA, CBDTPA, CIPA, etc.) which erodes economic and civil liberty, the recently-placed tariffs on imported steel, a federal budget that grows larger every year, and so forth...your assertion that the United States is more capitalist every day is a joke. All the substantive advances (like the recent voucher ruling and the essence of last year's tax cuts) are offset by the system's inertia.
Capitalists value human life over everything else. Otherwise, how would capital and value be created without human reason to act upon the environment? Capitalists also value freedom over it's opposite (socialism) because that freedom allows humans to actually create and accumulate that capital.
"All mankind is at the mercy of a handful of neurotics". - Norman Douglas
Look, it's very simple: you (plural, that means everyone--myself included) do NOT have any rights whatsoever to perform malicious actions using a computer against anyone for any reason. That's what this law says. Any one of you claiming otherwise is WRONG. If you feel that *somehow* you do have the right, you're already screwed up in the head ("Friggin' in the riggin'!") Some of you said that any system that is critical (nuclear power, 911 systems, Armed forces, etc.) should not be connected to the Internet...hello recall DARPA? Who was "here" first? Not you, bucko. Sorry, if anything, it is YOU who do not deserve to be connected to the Internet. Your logic is faulty, people. Don't break in to systems, don't disrupt communications, don't plot against others and you'll be fine. Bunch of paranoid "gimme" freaks is all you are. Can't deal with the truth?! Get out.