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Posted by Zonk on Friday October 14, 2005 @09:59AM from the you're-not-welcome-here dept.

FreeLinux writes "USA Today has a story about a federal court ruling stating that Spyware can constitute illegal trespass. From the article: 'A federal trial court in Chicago has ruled recently that the ancient legal doctrine of trespass to chattels (meaning trespass to personal property) applies to the interference caused to home computers by spyware. Information technology has advanced at warp speed with the law struggling to keep up, and this is an example of a court needing to use historical legal theories to grapple with new and previously unforeseen contexts in Cyberspace.'"

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Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by millisa · 2005-10-14 10:01 · Score: 5, Funny

Had thet dang sahn posted out yahnuh fer years now. I do b'lieve it states clearly ah am hav'n theh ra'ht t' shoot 'em.
1. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by Loc_Dawg · 2005-10-14 10:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  ...it's funny but also true. If people would ARM themselves with knowledge and caution, there would less trespassing to begin with.
  
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2. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by nutshell42 · 2005-10-14 10:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  "My HD is my castle," or
  "~/, sweet ~/"
  
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  Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
3. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by Tackhead · 2005-10-14 10:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  > ...it's funny but also true. If people would ARM themselves with knowledge and caution, there would less trespassing to begin with.
  In other words, people break into your box at their own RISC?
4. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by fred+fleenblat · 2005-10-14 10:39 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  > ...it's funny but also true. If people would ARM themselves with knowledge and caution, there would less trespassing to begin with.
  In other words, people break into your box at their own RISC?
  Like we haven't hear that joke 80386 times before...
5. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by Dolda2000 · 2005-10-14 12:22 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  In other words, people break into your box at their own RISC?
  Yeah. If they discover you, Sparcs may fly.
6. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by silvaran · 2005-10-14 12:48 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Come on folks, let's not SPARC a flamewar here.
7. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by plover · 2005-10-14 12:50 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Oh, CISC my ASCII.
  
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8. Re:Good, I'm gettin' mah gun by MAdMaxOr · 2005-10-14 19:29 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  That joke was a megaflop.
Re:The Feds Have Taken The First Step by Tackhead · 2005-10-14 10:16 · Score: 5, Funny

> When prosecuting a case of trespass, the owner must often demarcate their property with signs indicating that it is private property and trespass is not allowed.
$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]' 220 127.0.0.1 ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.37/8.00.8.135 214 Don't even think about attempting to relay spam through here, n00b. Tresspassers will be pwn3d.
Re:YEA by muszek · 2005-10-14 10:17 · Score: 5, Funny

What is spyware? Is it this kind of software that I need Wine to run?
Posted: Private Lan. No hunting. No Phishing. by millisa · 2005-10-14 10:31 · Score: 4, Funny

No SNMP Trapping.
Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.