On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Crist Clark wrote:
Sean Donelan wrote:
If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill.
If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...?
That will be a criminal matter between you and your neighbour.
If you leave your faucets running, the water company will send you a bill. If you leave your computer infected, ???
If you lose your credit card and someone runs up thousands of dollars in charges, the credit card company sends you a bill... But you can at most be held responsible for $50.
Which is a 'feature' of most credit cards, irrelevant to criminal law. -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, alex@nac.net, latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --