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Eliot Spitzer Cybercrime Legislation Critique from Experts

Calendar Apr 19, 2005 • User Avatar Brittany Day
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encryption legislation cybercrime security penalties computer criminals Eliot Spitzer
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has called for tougher penalties on computer criminals. He wants to prosecute people who gain access to computers surreptitiously, but who do not do any harm. The proposed legislation would also make encrypting information a crime if it concealed some other crime.

The anti-hacker part of Mr. Spitzer’s proposed legislation has drawn criticism from computer experts.

“I’ve always admired Elliot Spitzer because of the types of bad guys he went after,

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