[44388] in Cypherpunks
[NOISE]Re: AUTHOR A VIRUS, GO TO JAIL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (RobL)
Fri Dec 1 13:10:47 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 95 09:02 PST
To: OpsAn@gnn.com (Michael Coates)
From: RobL <robl@on-ramp.ior.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 10:08 PM 11/30/95, Michael Coates wrote:
>Found this intersting too. US Position?
>
>AUTHOR A VIRUS, GO TO JAIL
>A computer cracker last week became the first virus writer sentenced to a
>jail term under Great Britain's Computer Misuse Act. The 26-year-old
>perpetrator was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to 11
>charges connected with placing virus-infected programs on computer bulletin
>boards. (Investor's Business Daily 29 Nov 95 A6)
Gak.. glad I don't live in G.B. as I have had as many as 700 virii available
for download on my BBS.. wonder how long it will be before the start to
prosecute authors for writing buggy software ;)
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