From: RobL <robl@on-ramp.ior.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 03:14:01 +0800
To: OpsAn@gnn.com (Michael Coates)
Subject: [NOISE]Re: AUTHOR A VIRUS, GO TO JAIL
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At 10:08 PM 11/30/95, Michael Coates wrote:
>Found this intersting too.  US Position?
>
>AUTHOR A VIRUS, GO TO JAIL
>A computer cracker last week became the first virus writer sentenced to a
>jail term under Great Britain's Computer Misuse Act.  The 26-year-old
>perpetrator was sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to 11
>charges connected with placing virus-infected programs on computer bulletin
>boards.  (Investor's Business Daily 29 Nov 95 A6)

Gak.. glad I don't live in G.B. as I have had as many as 700 virii available
for download on my BBS.. wonder how long it will be  before the start to
prosecute authors for writing buggy software ;)

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