tech-security: cyber crime treaty a threat to security?

Subject: cyber crime treaty a threat to security?
To: None <tech-security@netbsd.org>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-security
Date: 05/18/2000 14:07:10

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Subject: cyber crime treaty a threat to security?
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:07:10 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>

This is something of an activism/advocacy thing..

See:

	http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/reuters/REU20000516S0007
	http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/en/projets/cybercrime.htm

Reportedly, among other things, the proposed treaty bans research into
and posession of exploits.

					- Bill