Major Tom

USA Eastern

Information Assurance

This isn't Hacking. Its Social Enginering, Its Cracking, Its Exortion and Blackmail in the right situation. Where does the lieniency end? Does it interfere with the Patriot Act? Can the squabble that will fester from this, plague the Patriot Act? Can hackers who break into software and get away with it, have the same "out" when they hit banks and other institutions such as Power Grids, Airports and other critical infrastructure? Where does the little line in the sand end and a Trench begin?

The trouble with making policies less strict makes people want to see how far they can stretch that rubber band, and get away with it.

So Its strict. GOOD. Make examples out of the first few hundred that perform an "illegal" act and then guess what. No one will want to judge or try the same thing. 'Magine that.

Making something OK to strip out a protective layer is like saying its OK to have a bank account without a PIN. The protection is there in some part to keep out malicious items from being introduced to items that can be copied in mass, and have a world e-plague sometime in the future. Its only a matter of time before the malicious side scores a strike that will affect us all. We've been lucky....so Far.

Become wishy-washy on policies that are written in stone, mind as well be written on a dry marker board, so we can change day to day. No one other than the wanna be corrupt benefit from this. We spend the American Dollar in court making up our minds, while the Copyright breaker reaps in the American Dollar on illegal activity and gets rich off the procrastination and indecision of our courts.

Sad but True.