soreff (04/14/83)
Another comment about the texas computer crime law: If I recall correctly (could someone re-post the text of the law) the law provided NO protection FROM operators. Doesn't this seem like an important omission? If a commercial networking company starts to read the mail that it transfers (presumably in violation of a contract) shouldn't this be a criminal offense comparable to interfering with paper mail? Also, if various types of "use profiles" (relative use of various services, frequency of detectable syntax errors in using the shell or other features, some estimate of reading/writing speed etc.) were constructed of particular users, shouldn't disclosure of that data require user consent (analogous to school transcripts)? I don't recall seeing anything like this. -Jeffrey Soreff (hplabs!soreff)