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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Run a server from your dorm room, go to jail
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- Subject: [FYI] (Fwd) FC: Run a server from your dorm room, go to jail
- From: Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)
- Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 21:10:22 +2000
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- Organization: PA Axel H Horns (Mobile)
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Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 11:28:18 -0700
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Run a server from your dorm room, go to jail
Reply-to: declan@well.com
>Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:14:52 -0500
>From: Matt [last name snipped]
>Subject: Wow, we're paranoid
>To: declan@well.com
>
>This was linked to from Wired's site, but I don't know if you read it:
>
><http://chronicle.com/free/99/08/99080501t.htm>
>
>It reads as if the Cleveland County DA (OKC is in Oklahoma County in the
>center of the state; Cleveland County is just south of there and is where
>the University of Oklahoma is located) wants to put a 25-year-old guy in
>the state pen for ten years because he ran a server out of his dorm room.
>"Use of computer networks beyond what was authorized" -- OU doesn't want
>students running servers.
>
>Am I reading this wrong, or is this really, REALLY scary?
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