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.

Comments

Re:Has hacking ever killed anyone?

[operagost]

Just because the way of committing crime is different doesn't mean that there needs to be a law introduced for it - after all, when the first gun was made, they didn't need to make a new law for that

Try to tell that to a liberal.

Re:Hmm...

[Drizzten]

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.