Life in Jail for Hackers
From Declan McCullagh:
WASHINGTON — A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday evening voted 299 to 121 to approve the bill, which would reshape large portions of the federal bureaucracy into new a department combining parts of 22 existing federal agencies, including the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, and the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center.
During closed-door negotiations before the debate began, the House Republican leadership inserted the 16-page Cyber Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) into the Homeland Security bill. CSEA expands the ability of police to conduct Internet or telephone eavesdropping without first obtaining a court order, and offers Internet providers more latitude to disclose information to police…
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Life in prison for hackers? You can’t get life in prison for a drunk driving charge in Arizona… however, Arizona has among the toughest DUI laws in the nation, including mandatory prison terms for even some first offenses… and yet with all of the enhanced punishments, it doesn’t seem to be much of a deterrent.
So you think the possibility of life for hacking will have the intended impact?