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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.
Do they consider widening pages as "hacking"? I don't want to get a life sentence for that!
Have you hugged your moderator today?
"Hackers" break into poorly designed system (almost all are running MS OS's), grab information and then blackmails a company for thousands of dollars to millions by threatening to release the information that will tarnish that companies image.
GWB's buddies have each stolen billions of dollars, destroyed a number of large companies, placed 100's of thousands of ppl out of work, destroyed 10's of thousands of ppl's retirement by blackmailing or killing employees to have them lie about how the books are done.
For this he wants to talk about giving them 5-10 years. For the hacker, it is life. We are sorely lacking in leadership.
That hacking is life and being a drunken crackhead felon who's business success is little more than a series of well placed bribes funded by other people and you still get to be president.
Thank God being busted with a bag of reefer gets you Federal time with multiple murderers while white collar crooks get to become 'lobbyists' and 'policy advisors'.
Thank God we have our priorities straight. Thank God we can now indict people on Federal charges that carry life sentences, without a warrant.
I thought it was Littleboys.va.
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