On Tue, 8 May 2001, Franklin Lian wrote:
that news couple of years ago both in English and Chinese. The hacker actually was executed for stealing millions of dollars from a bank he used work for, NOT for HACKING. According to Chinese law, any criminal commited to crime that evolves more than $100,000 (the exact number might be wrong) can be sentenced to death.
The story I read had it as two individuals. The not-so-bright one who had access to the bank and the bright one who designed and built a device to put inline at the bank. The device diverted the equiv of pennies per transaction that passed through it to a bank account that the two had set up somewhere. It was a brilliant scheme. They screwed up by trying to withdrawl huge amounts of money at a time. THAT's what got them caught. The point the person was trying to make is still valid though. It would not take long to come up with $100,000 worth of damages. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc