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Article #41654Re: AIDS Trojan - the Police charge a US Citizen
From: Tim Meighan
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 17:01
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 17:01
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In article <266d.25c99ee0@ibmpcug.co.uk> alanj@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Alan Jay) writes: >PS I think it is interesting that unlike the recent 'internet' case that >the charge is blackmail. I suspect that this is due to the current state >of UK law. It is due to the fact that in the Internet case, it was clear that there was no intent to extort money from the sites affected. In the AIDS trojan case, it appears that the whole intent of the scheme was to get people to send in money to obtain a 'cure' to the virus that was trashing data files. Tim Meighan Silent Radio
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!srhqla!tcm From: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: AIDS Trojan - the Police charge a US Citizen Message-ID: <1261@srhqla.SR.COM> Date: 5 Feb 90 17:01:31 GMT References: <266d.25c99ee0@ibmpcug.co.uk> Reply-To: tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan) Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles Lines: 14