[148814] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: LAw Enforcement Contact

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Jan 23 16:18:20 2012

From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAPF5ageXusJjk5Y86TWxStoyVLoiLnGs683Pf1M6T4Uc+Ko7+g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:17:57 -0500
To: Chris <caldcv@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Chris wrote:

> The appropriately named SS mainly deals with counterfeit currency,
> widespread ID theft (See also: Ryan1918) and threats to the President.

Actually, they have statutory authority to deal with computer crime,
too; see http://www.secretservice.gov/criminal.shtml and
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1030.html


		--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb







home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post