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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Hacker Scholarship
Message-ID: <414@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 18:01:22 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 19 18:01:22 1987
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In article <246@wrs.UUCP> dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes:
Re: what crime does a hacker commit?

>I would say that among others, Copyright law is very likely to be broken,
>together with some law concerning privacy (4th. Amendment perhaps - forgive
>me if I get it wrong: I'm Canadian, and we (Obviuosly) don't have the
>U.S. Constitution, instead the Canadian Charter of Rights (Which incidentally
>adds up to about the same effect)).

Copyright law is only broken if the hacker copies something copyrighted
from the system broken into, not if he/she takes anthing else or just
mucks around.

The US Constitution prevents the government from violating the privacy
of a citizen, not one citizen of violating another's privacy.  I would
be surprised if it differs in Canada.

To make hacking illegal would require specific legeslation.  I
remember hearing about a computer cribe bill a few years ago, don't
know if it passed.  I think it could have made you guilty of a crime
if you stored your phone numbers on the company's computer without
permission.

Now if we only had cyberspace we could explain to the jury that the
hacker was trespassing!
-- 
/|/~\~~\    The entire world             Warren Burstein
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