The U.S. Senate today ratified the Convention on Cybercrime Treaty.
The purpose is to allow greater cooperation between the U.S. and Europe dealing with cybercrimes, however it's very, very broad language could lead to some questionable applications.
Article 1 section C is an example.
i any public or private entity that provides to users of its service the ability to communicate by means of a computer system, and
According to this definition, it does not even have to be the internet. Just providing a null modem cable to direct connect two computers together, or a cat5 crossover cable. Seems to broad to me, I'm all for fighting cybercrime, but let's be logical about this.
Oh crap, I said logical when speaking about government, there goes any credibility I had.
:-/
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Posted by Muddy at August 7, 2006 09:22 PM