Word: computerizes
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The laws governing computer information are vague, and some areas--such as the constitutionality of the government deciding whether looking at some types of information is a crime--need to be clarified in court. Shattuck said.
The vice president, formerly head of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the case would probably fall under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. which deals with government computer systems and carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison. That law applies to the case only if it...
To do that, computer experts should work on preventing the type of break-in that occurred last week and possibly develop a new and safer system, Shattuck said.
Robert T. Morris '87-'88, who masterminded the "virus" program that immobilized computers across the country, studied computer security intensely while at Harvard, where he was known as a creative but innocuous prankster, associates said in interviews this weekend.
Termed a "classic hacker," the Dunster House graduate is portrayed by friends as an avid computer buff who spent long hours toying with computers to the exclusion of his studies.