Collecting, Hacking and the Spooks (was: Gulf War, dummies, ...)

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Tue Feb 4 00:10:01 2003

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, R. D. Davis wrote:

> Now, are those of us in the US to be considered
> criminals because we collect, build and hack all sorts of computer and
> electronics equipment as a harmless hobby (or is the knowledge and
> ability to do this now considered dangerous by our elected idiots,
> since they obviously lack the ability to think intelligently about
> anything?)?

Well, given that the DCMA is a standing U.S. federal law, you can
probably answer that question yourself. But basically, the Sears
repairman was right; didn't you know that it's a federal crime to
try to understand those systems you're collecting?

-brian.
Received on Tue Feb 04 2003 - 00:10:01 GMT