Amy Alexander on Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:42:01 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] software-installing sysadmin in georgia goes to trial... |
as we round out the holiday season, a timely reminder that federal governments aren't the only ones with Naughty computer laws - state government laws can be just as Naughty. it's been easy to get caught up this past year in the rush of bad national computer laws enacted, threatened, or enforced in the name of anti-piracy, anti-terrorism, anti-anti-adobe, and possibly even auntie em. however, lets not forget our unfortunate friends who got busted under even dumber, but less media-prominent state laws. for example, the poor schmuck in georgia who installed distributed computing software (software that works on lots of computers, the way setiathome does) on machines he administered at the college where he worked. he didn't actually "hack" anything, but all the same, later this month, the state of georgia might be putting him in prison for 120 years. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/300 that's right boys and girls, next time you install a screensaver on a machine where you work, think of those less fortunate software-installers, who might be spending the next 120 christmases making license plates. -@ -- plagiarist.org Recontextualizing script-kiddyism as net-art for over 1/20 of a century. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold