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From: outer@utcsrgv.UUCP (Richard Outerbridge)
Newsgroups: net.crypt,net.legal
Subject: Criminal Cryptography?
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Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:37:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:37:26 1984
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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?
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