From: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 95 12:55:39 PST
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: another fbi prosecution
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On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> At 07:30 AM 12/5/95 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> > sophomore Dominick LaScala was charged last week in federal court with two 
> > counts of computer fraud.
> 
> I thought fraud was obtaining something of value by false pretenses or
> uttering a false document or something.  Doesn't sound like fraud to me.

I think they're referring to at least one of the accounts being obtained
under false pretenses, and the From: lines (and probably Message-ID,
Received, etc) being forged. 

Which would still be an interesting precedent, yes.

-rich