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Friday, September 28, 2001
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/28/010928hneffata.xml EFF: New law will treat hackers as terrorists By David Legard LEGISLATION UNDER CONSIDERATION in the U.S. Congress to combat terrorism will treat low-level computer crimes as terrorist acts and threaten hackers with life imprisonment, civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said Thursday. EFF said that the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) will add low-level computer intrusion, already a crime under other laws, to the list of "federal terrorism offenses," creating penalties of up to life imprisonment....
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