[27357] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What would you tell the White House?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garlic)
Sun Feb 13 23:05:57 2000
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:01:59 -0800
From: Garlic <garlic@garlic.com>
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Ditto... Imagine if they only prosecuted burglars for more than $80K.
Yes there does need to be some sort of clip level but its far to high.
I don't know if its $80K but its far too high.
The best kept secret in America is "what is the real speed limit". Ask
a cop and he will tell you "it depends". The same should be true of
computer crimes.
Mike Bird wrote:
> Sean Donelan wrote:
> > If you had the opportunity, what would you tell the politicans?
>
> "Enforce the laws that are already on the books." (Now where
> have I heard that before?)
>
> When FBI refuses to investigate incidents with less than $80K
> damage it only encourages the vandals. A few high-profile
> arrests in lesser cases would discourage them. Easy.
>
> The international aspects are much more challenging.
>
> Should countries which refuse to cooperate in tracking down
> offendors be classified in much the same way as terrorist
> nations are handled now? Should nations refuse to connect
> their portions of the Internet to such cyber-terrorists?
> What about transit via other nations, dialin, satellite?
>
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