Now this would be a reason to make the school computers a nwq target by hackers.
"Computer hackers who prey upon unsuspecting schools, striking fear in the hearts of entire communities with threats of violence, cannot go unpunished," the New Jersey Democrat said this week. |
But educators, programmers and civil libertarians say Torricelli's recently-introduced School Website Protection Act of 2001 does more than place wrongdoers behind bars. They say the bill is worded so vaguely it would turn commonplace activities into federal crimes to be investigated by the U.S. Secret Service.
I think the bill misses the mark," says Jim Dempsey, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "It is written in an overly broad fashion. Sending one unsolicited e-mail affects a computer. If I send an e-mail to my student's teacher and I didn't have her permission, I violate the act.
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Source: Wired
