Comments on: Federal Anti Spyware Law to Become a Reality http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/federal-anti-spyware-law-to-become-a-reality-let-your-rep-know-how-you-feel/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:40:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: CHS http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/federal-anti-spyware-law-to-become-a-reality-let-your-rep-know-how-you-feel/#comment-1889 CHS Fri, 27 May 2005 17:19:07 +0000 /?p=665#comment-1889 What I just read is, I'm sure, a very simplified synopsis of a much more complex proposal. However even this simplification is unnecessarily complex. It requires the offended party to prove the intention of the offender, a situation analogious with a burgler saying that he had broken into your house to watch TV or get out of the rain. I-SPY is quite simple - if you access someone’s computer without authorization, and use that unauthorized access to transmit their personal information for the purposes of fraud or damaging a computer, or to commit a crime, you go to jail. This clause is a landmine put there to give lawyers work, but what can we expect? They write the laws. If you enter someones computer, uninvited, for what ever reason, you should go to jail and pay reparations for any damage incurred, including software and any lost files. What I just read is, I’m sure, a very simplified synopsis of a much more complex proposal. However even this simplification is unnecessarily complex. It requires the offended party to prove the intention of the offender, a situation analogious with a burgler saying that he had broken into your house to watch TV or get out of the rain.

I-SPY is quite simple - if you access someone’s computer without authorization, and use that unauthorized access to transmit their personal information for the purposes of fraud or damaging a computer, or to commit a crime, you go to jail.
This clause is a landmine put there to give lawyers work, but what can we expect? They write the laws. If you enter someones computer, uninvited, for what ever reason, you should go to jail and pay reparations for any damage incurred, including software and any lost files.

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