'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates

'T0rn' Arrest Alarms White Hats, Advocates
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-09-24

A raid on the alleged author of a well-known hacker toolkit is raising eyebrows among electronic civil libertarians, and putting security researchers on guard.

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JConnor writes: Use whatever means possible to justify action against that person to build case law to justify future injustices to the American public.

In other words, it goes back to how the justice system is suppose to work. First, laws must be written. The definition of a crime (according to California Penal Code (P.C. 15):

One problem with this, this is not an American arrest under American laws, Scotland Yard arrested him, this is a UK deal. I know it's easy to find fault in the way the US is handling things regarding computer "crimes" but this one doesn't belong to the US.

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Then they should also arrest Smith, Wesson, Kalaschnikow 2002-09-28
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