> Tracking my every movement does NOT potentially compromise the security of
> my network. You're talking about a completely different 'risk'
> than the one involved in the charges.
Till someone writes a virus the retransmits itself using the "send file"
command in AIM. Talk about rapid transmission...
> > So he should be punished for what *might* have
> > happened if someone *else* installed some *different* malicious program?
>
> ABSOLUTELY. There are laws against conspiracy to commit crimes, reckless
> driving, reckless endangerment, negligent homicide. Being an idiot and
> causing _potential_ harm to your fellow citizens IS a crime.
Negligent homicide applies after someone gets killed (after software
actually compromises the network). Reckless endangerment? Maybe. But this
guy's actions are more akin to shooting a gun full of blanks in his own
backyard. Stupid, probably illegal, but not actually endangering anyone and
it definitely doesn't equal negligent homicide.
> That's a lame argument... "they don't understand the technical details of
> this case". Sorry, 90% of the population - those making the laws, those
> enforcing the laws, those sitting on juries, fall into that
> category.
And that's ok with you? That a state agency tasked with investigating
computer crimes doesn't understand technology? Well, I guess I can't argue
that. If it's ok with you, then it just is. It's not ok with me.
> Kinda
> like "You see, I wasn't writing a virus meant to bring havoc to
> the world's
> networks, I was just doing virus research and it somehow got onto the
> Internet." Yeah. I guess I just don't understand the technology.
No, in my opinion it's nothing even remotely like that.
-Cameron
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elliptIQ Inc.
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