From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 21:09:03 PDT
At 10:07 PM -0400 9/18/03, <santoken@bright.net> wrote:
>You are exactly correct, Bill. More can be read about this at the
>bottom of the page here:
>
>http://www.secretservice.gov/history.shtml
>
>And, if you read about the Patriot Act of 2001, it shows that the
>Secret Service was given jurisdiction over computer and internet
>fraud.
Which they have pursued for several years prior to the advent of the
Patriot Act. After all, SS agents can't miss a chance to stick guns
in the face of a 12 year old kid (and his freaked out parents) who's
running scripts trying to break into his school's computer. Or better
yet, they can confiscate the computers of a company that's making a
GAME about hacking and taking over the government.
As someone in the computer industry, I have a very low amount of
respect for the powers, knowledge and ability of the Secret Service
to Prevent any kind of computer fraud or crime what so ever. If they
spent time working at Microsoft and perhaps with CERT, we'd probably
have less computer viruses and hacking going on.
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