Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other theme in American policy that the Soviets found so objectionable-that their leadership is illegitimate, aberrational and doomed-resounded through Reagan's rhetoric for nearly two years. The President repeatedly charged that the Soviets "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" and would end up on "the ash heap of history...
...they said, often deviate "from avowed standards, with substantial harm to individuals and public institutions." The three Republicans on the committee all dissented, however, calling the report "a slanted and biased document that is aimed at closing down an effective and almost indispensable tool" in the fight against organized crime and political corruption...
...trouble is that Wisconsin, like most states, is trying to fight 20th century crime with 19th century laws. Electronic mail, automatic funds-transfer systems and interlocking networks of high-speed computers are protected by legal concepts that were developed to safeguard paper documents. "In the old days, you needed a fast gun and a fast horse," says Richard Guilmette, manager of corporate security for Prime Computer. "Now you need fast fingers and a small computer...
...absence of specific federal laws aimed at computer criminals, nearly two dozen states have passed a series of conflicting and ineffective statutes. "It's a terrible patchwork of law," says Donn Parker, a computer-crime expert at SRI International. "Sometimes the results have been disastrous." According to a recent estimate, only one in 33 reported computer crimes results in a conviction...
...however, laws tailored to punish high-tech criminals are beginning to make their way onto the books. The Massachusetts legislature is considering a model measure, prepared with the help of local computer experts, that spells out crimes in precise technical terms and calls for tough penalties: for example, $5,000 fines and up to a year in jail for hackers who crack security codes just for the fun of it, triple damages for persons found guilty of malicious tampering. The California legislature is considering a bill that would strengthen its pioneering computer-crime law, enacted in 1979, by stiffening penalties...