[2738] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: DOJ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Ausman)
Wed Aug 21 15:19:36 1996
To: Chris Garrigues <cwg@DeepEddy.Com>
cc: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>, dmurray@pdssoftware.com,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, cwg@deepeddy.deepeddy.com,
ausman@wired.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Aug 1996 10:04:32 CDT."
<199608201504.KAA24478@deepeddy.DeepEddy.Com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 10:21:04 -0700
From: Jim Ausman <ausman@wired.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Well, children will be children after all. Perhaps the perp is a minor.
I don't think the government can prosecute minors as adults for computer
crimes. Not yet, anyway.
Jim Ausman
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I have not now, nor have I ever, been a member of Organization X.
>
>I *am* curious if the perpretrators left a trail. I'm not sure that I'd want
>to be caught by the Justice Department. "Oh, please! Make an example of me!
>
>I want you to use me as your test case!" ;-)
>
>The sad thing is that if they're good enough to be a real threat, they
>probably won't get caught. If they were amateurs, they'll have an example
>made of them.
>
>Chris
>
>
