Even you can be hacked

Thu Jun 10 20:31:41 UTC 2004

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Crist Clark wrote:

>
> Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> > If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill.
>
> If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...?

That will be a criminal matter between you and your neighbour.

> > If you leave your faucets running, the water company will send you a bill.
> > If you leave your computer infected, ???
>
> If you lose your credit card and someone runs up thousands of dollars
> in charges, the credit card company sends you a bill... But you can at
> most be held responsible for $50.

Which is a 'feature' of most credit cards, irrelevant to criminal law.

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