[44734] in Cypherpunks
Re: another fbi prosecution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Graves)
Tue Dec 5 16:08:34 1995
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 12:56:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2b8.32.19951205200735.0067bb30@panix.com>
On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Duncan Frissell wrote:
> At 07:30 AM 12/5/95 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > sophomore Dominick LaScala was charged last week in federal court with two
> > counts of computer fraud.
>
> I thought fraud was obtaining something of value by false pretenses or
> uttering a false document or something. Doesn't sound like fraud to me.
I think they're referring to at least one of the accounts being obtained
under false pretenses, and the From: lines (and probably Message-ID,
Received, etc) being forged.
Which would still be an interesting precedent, yes.
-rich
