From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 23:19:45 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Usual Computer Ban
Message-ID: <199811101453.JAA28698@mail1.panix.com>
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>Pentagon Kids Kicked Off Grid 
>Reuters
>
>11:47 a.m.  6.Nov.98.PST Two California teenagers who mounted what the
Pentagon >called one the most systematic attacks ever made against a US
military computer >network were sentenced by a federal judge Thursday.
>
>US District Judge Maxine Chesney doled out the usual punishment for those
convicted >of computer crimes: No more computers. The boys, aged 16 and 17,
are barred from >using modems or computers without supervision during their
three-year probation.
>
>The judge forbade the hackers from possessing or using a computer modem,
acting as >computer consultants, or having any contact with computers out
of sight of "a school >teacher, librarian, employer, or other person
approved by the probation officer."

Usual laugh.  Not technically feasible to mount this sort of Denial of
Service attack unless you actually imprison them.

Computers and connections are a bit too ubiquitous.

DCF