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The Computer Owner - Guilty or Not Guilty?
Von-at-Infosec_Writers asks: "It is relatively easy to trace a hack back to a particular computer, but proving that a specific person committed the crime could become much more difficult especially since, as a recent CNN.com article stated, a hacker's legal defense can be: it wasn't me but my hijacked computer that committed the crime. 'In some cases, I do suspect there are people whose computer is taken
over by third parties. It's also a clever defense to exculpate your client,' says Michael Allison of the Internet Crimes Group.What are possibilities to overcome this problem; to prove that the computer owner, without a doubt, is in fact responsible or not responsible for the crime?" As computers become more and more prevalent in our infrastructure, the consequences for computer crime become that much more serious. How much responsibility does the owner of an Internet-connected computer have for crimes committed using their equipment, and what are ways we can best determine their involvement, or lack of it, in said crimes?
This isn't a poll? And it lends itself so well to a 'cowboyneal' response......
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How much responsibility does the owner of an Internet-connected computer have for crimes committed using their equipment
Just ask the RIAA and SCO. They'll tell you.
I don't want to be here.
There are enough nerds in high places to keep this from happening across the world. DRM is a DReaM of the big companies. It wont ever make it into 100% use.
Ok, i am sure you didn't really mean to say that 'the gun committed a crime'.. right?
That is just the exact thing that anti-rights people try to get the public to think.. that an inanimate object can be at fault... that the PERSON that committed the crime isn't the one that is truly at fault.. so lets ban the 'object'..
That's just as bad as blaming the car in an accident ' the SUV ran over the little girl'... no it was the DRIVER that ran her over..
If it really wasn't a typo, then you are an idiot
---- Booth was a patriot ----
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Either remove the hard newlines, or use a mode (such as HTML) that doesn't convert newlines into breaks (but this requires that you explicitly add the BR tags to your post to make a new paragraph.)