Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!outer From: outer@utcsrgv.UUCP (Richard Outerbridge) Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.legal Subject: Criminal Cryptography? Message-ID: <99@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:37:26 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.99 Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:37:26 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:42:31 EDT Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 14 The Toronto *Globe and Mail* of 8410.08 had a front-page story concerning a novel computer crime: long-distance data encryption. The circumstances surrounding the case weren't made clear, but the gist was that the principals of a Toronto-based computer firm were being tried in Ontario for encrypting a U.S. data base via a long-distance modem link. These were *criminal* charges, and one of the issues concerned the definition of "property": by effectively denying the owner of the data access to it, had they destroyed anything (the tape was still there!) ? Does anyone know any more about this? Similar cases in other jurisdictions? -- Richard Outerbridge416 978 2742 Payload Deliveries: N 41 39'36", W 79 23'42", Elev. 106.47m.