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Slot Machine Justice for Melissa Author
Mark Rasch, 2002-05-13

Under capricious computer crime sentencing rules, virus-writer David Smith managed to get the right prison term for all the wrong reasons.

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Slot Machine Justice for Melissa Author 2002-05-14
Anonymous
Surely this whole approach has been wrong. Virus distribution is an act of vandalism and attention-seeking. I suggest it would have been better to pick a comparable act of physical damage and impose a corresponding sentence. If we list a few crimes we can imagine:

1) breaking a window
2) spen...

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