Silly me, tried to zone, but nope, disco. Funny cause my 6 man grp has been on non-stop for like 72+ hours. Perhaps now would be a good time to reboot, update virus db, defrag, PC housecleaning...
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wonder what kind of legal trouble you could get into for doing something like that...all over a game.. Some folks got their priorities all mixed up.
The Govt is still using the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It's real easy for any kind of malicious activity to be a federal issue and fall under myraid agency's jurisdiction merely by a transmission crossing state lines, or even country lines, which pretty much anything does these days by virtue of how packets travel. I myself have ran afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, it aint pretty. However we all know how stretched and understaffed any govt entity is these days, so it pretty much has to some how be construed as a threat to national security to really get anyone's attn.
For instance, I over heard a bank worker talking about how even the worker's accounts get compromised on a regular basis, this while my sister was in line to deal with her account being compromised... It is so rampant, so pervasive, its like smog, it's there, it's everywhere, and there isn't much anyone can do about it...
It really doesn't get much publicity either. If it got out how much nefarious activty, malicious code, was actually in use it would cause a panic. Visa and Mastercard for example have a huge HUGE quarterly write-off solely due to fraud. If the public knew how compromised, at every level, the electronic infrastructure was, they would lose faith in it and thus cause another recession or even full on depression. But the public can't just go back to keeping their money under their mattress (say as your grandparents did during the great depression), it is simply too late, technology is too embedded, not only in our lives, but in the very foundation of our infrastructure, and it is grossly, egregiously, compromised.
Hell, I made BANK working on the y2k problem back in its day. And that wasn't even malicious code. Now some ppl say that was a hoax since the scare never came to fruition. But I will attest that it didn't come to pass because of the hard work of coders like me that were there to make SURE it didn't happen. Its one of those situations where coders succeeding at their jobs made it look like it wasn't a real threat. Now add to that, malicious intent, and the fact that our infrastructure on many many levels is tied into technology, albeit poorly, and today's problems, no matter how hard they try to hide it, makes things like y2k pale in comparison.