385-3 vote: House OKs life sentences for hackers
Jim Choate
ravage at einstein.ssz.com
Thu Jul 18 16:00:15 PDT 2002
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Michael Motyka wrote:
> Explain to me how a computer hacker is more dangerous than a drunk
> driver on the freeway? A hacker who interrupts power could be said to
> put hundreds or thousands of lives at risk but so could a drunk driver
> who spends an hour on the freeway. One is parallel the other is more or
> less serial, so what?
Not necessarily, the driver could hit a telephone pole. Or drive a truck
laden with toxic chemicals off the road on top of a bridge upstream from a
water intake...
It's politicing at the expense of the nation.
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