<div>The following news item appeared in the ORG list. </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style>'Cyber attacks on IT systems would become a criminal offence<br></span><span style>punishable by at least two years in prison throughout the EU under a<br></span><span style>draft law backed by the Civil Liberties Committee on Tuesday.<br>
</span><span style>Possessing or distributing hacking software and tools would also be an<br></span><span style>offence, and companies would be liable for cyber attacks committed for<br></span><span style>their benefit. '</span><br style>
<span style>Of course, the immediate question arises as to what constitutes<br></span><span style>'hacking software and tools', since at its widest possible definition</span></blockquote><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span style>that applies to anyone with a household (and possibly also a handheld)<br></span><span style>computer.</span></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br style><br style><span style>Cat</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wonder what Jeff Moss would say on this, especially on the question of what constitutes punishable "software and tools'. </div></div><div>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>Sivasubramanian M<br><div>ISOC India Chennai</div><div><a href="http://isocindiachennai.org/" target="_blank">http://isocindiachennai.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Sivasubramanian M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<em><strong>Subjectively highlighted excerpts </strong>from the well researched Vanity Fair May 2012 article “In the Battles of SOPA and PIPA, who should Control the Internet” <label>By</label> Michael Joseph Gross, reposted here with a comment, some pictures and a mischievous cartoon.</em><br>

<br><a href="http://isocindiachennai.org/?p=992" target="_blank">http://isocindiachennai.org/?p=992</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>Sivasubramanian M</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Sally Wentworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wentworth@isoc.org" target="_blank">wentworth@isoc.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Fascinating piece - thanks for sharing!<span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span><font color="#888888"><br><div>
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Sally Wentworth<br>Internet Society <br><a href="tel:%2B1%20703%20439%202146" value="+17034392146" target="_blank">+1 703 439 2146</a><br><a href="mailto:wentworth@isoc.org" target="_blank">wentworth@isoc.org</a><br><a href="http://www.isoc.org" target="_blank">www.isoc.org</a></div>

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<br></font></span><div><div><div><div>On Mar 30, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Veni Markovski wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span>Worth reading:<div><span dir="ltr"> <a href="http://m.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/internet-regulation-war-sopa-pippa-defcon-hacking" target="_blank">http://m.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/internet-regulation-war-sopa-pippa-defcon-hacking</a></span></div>


</span><br><br>-- <br>Best,<br>Veni<p>== Sent from my phone, so any spelling mistakes are caused by the touchscreen keyboard. That's a nice excuse, isn't it;-)<br></p></div></div>
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