Re: earlier posting of users' passwords and credit card numbers

[Derik.Jarne () osi com (Derik Jarne x353-2490)]

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From: Joseph Steinberg <steinber () SLINKY CS NYU EDU>
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Subject: Re: earlier posting of users' passwords and credit card numbers
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On Mon, 10 Oct 1994, Derik Jarne x353-2490 wrote:

> Then WE!, US! ME! YOU! should find out WHO is sending and start pulling 
> fingernails. Maybe the FBI would be interested in this sort of #$%#^% @^%@& !!!!

> > The FBI has power only in the USA -- the Inernet is global -- if someone 
> > from Iran posts a credit card number of a US account -- do you really 
> > think abything can happen to the poster?
> > REMEBER THE INTERNET IS **NOT** SUBJECT TO US LAW EXCEPT INSIDE THE USA!!!!


Under your concept a foreigner in the USA cannot be held accountable
for acts of crime so long as they originate in some other country.
Like a letter bomb. 

No, I think that the FBI would be interested in this, or should be!!

As far as I know it did originate in the USA. 

Do you know something we do not?