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• It's stuff like that that made me a felon (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  You could easily be prosecuted under the law that made me a felon in Oregon. You knowingly altered the contents of another person's computer without their authorization. Yes, you could probably spend a lot of bucks trying to defend yourself, but if the "victim" were important enough, you'd be where I am now.

  Also, the Canadian law basically makes it illegal to delete anything, so you could be prosecuted there as well.

  Prank or not, what you did was in poor taste. It teaches a lesson that needs to be ta

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  • Re:It's stuff like that that made me a felon (Score:1)

    by cog (4665) <{cog} {at} {cpan.org}> on 2005.04.04 14:12 (#39397) Homepage Journal

    You knowingly altered the contents of another person's computer without their authorization

    No I didn't!!!!

    I simply printed `rm -rf / ` on the screen! Only on the screen!!!

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    • Re:It's stuff like that that made me a felon (Score:1)

      by cog (4665)

      And then it printed something like "April Fools :-D" and then something like "Don't you ever, ever, EVER run code you don't understand.

      And that was all! :-) I would never do something to deliberately harm someone, knowing or not the person! I'm not that sort of guy! :-) Please don't get me wrong! :-)