Moe Trin wrote:
> In the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
> <Ea8Be.192851$IO.32878@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>, Imhotep wrote:
>
>>Nog wrote:
>
>
>>>It is breaking and entry and sometimes grand larceny. All crimes worthy of
>>>the death penalty in my mind.
>>
>>You can't be serious? Are we talking about life in Saudi Arabia?
>
>
> Well, he's posting from what appears to be Augusta, Maine - maybe your
> sarcasm detector needs re-calibrating.
>
>
>>What should be the penalty for speeding? Lightening up the "heavy foot"
>>by cutting off toes?
>
>
> Only for the third conviction. (Seriously, at one time, some states in
> the USA did have rather stiff penalties for speeding, including suspension
> for a year for the first conviction 10 MPH over the limit, three years for
> the second, and a permanent loss of license for the third conviction.)
>
>
>>What the companies like Microsoft who make the crapware software in the
>>first place? Should they also be put to death to (by your reasoning).
>
>
> Sounds like a great idea to me, but you obviously haven't read the license
> you agreed to when you installed that crap - you waved ALL rights to
> anything, including the expectation that the software might attempt to do
> something useful. If said software causes your computer to explode and
> burn down your house - that's your problem, not microsoft's.
>
> Old guy


Death penalty for hackers, thinks someone has gone off their nut. We
don't even kill folks who kill people deliberately often enough.

I am more concerned about the arrest of an individual who accessed an
open wireless connection. The wireless network was open (i.e. no logon
or password required) and the individual who accessed this open
connection was accused of "hacking" into the network by the reporter in.
I have to wonder what the definition of hacking St Peterburg Times.

Makes me wonder if the next time I go to starbucks if I will be
arrested. (Though I probably should be for paying 5 bucks for a cup of
coffee).

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/07/04/St...a_new_br.shtml

While hacking into a wireless point I would consider wrong, accessing a
wide open connection should not be. Carried out to the ultimate lunacy,
anyone accessing an http server without explicit permission should be
arrested.

This is pretty crazy and even worse folks are saying it is a gray area
in law....sheesh..ok lets hang this guy, better yet the reporter who
claimed this was hacking. Of the several articles I found, none
indicated this individual did anything more than access the Internet
over an open connection.

Winged