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Re: Update on mail bombing threats--not so funny

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Max Vision)
Sun Jan 19 12:08:17 1997

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:36:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Max Vision <vision@gryphon.com>
To: ids@uow.edu.au
Reply-To: ids@uow.edu.au

At 01:49 AM 1/14/97 EST, David Kennedy wrote:
>>After talking with the FBI, I was informed that Federal 18 USC
>>1030 ibid.  does not apply.  (I have no idea what it actually
>>says, but many admins thought it applied.) 
>I suggest you contact your local US Attorney's Office or the nearest US 
Secret
>Service office.  IANAL (retired US Army Military Police), but I believe
>18USC1030 does apply to this problem, there just is no investigative 
interest

Uhm, read the USCS 1029 and 1030.  They have to do with illicit access 
devices, applicable to passwords, credit card numbers, etc.  Sending 
someone email has _nothing_ to do with access device fraud.  Read.  Think.
flaming people who talk about law but are basically clueless,
Max

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