Time: Mon Nov 11 20:00:07 1996
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
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>To: pmitch@primenet.com
>Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 19:22:09 PST
>From: oneazman@juno.com (Alfred R Martin)
>
>I found this in the Dear Abby section of the Arizona Republic Newspaper,
>today, Veterans Day:
>
>   Privacy is the precious right of every American, and when our own
>government workers abuse their access to records, it's doubly wrong. The
>good news is that just before Congress adjourned, we passed a law making
>it a crime to misuse computer access to obtain private information in
>government files.
>   The new law is the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
>   Both hackers who break into government computers from the outside and
>government employees who abuse their computer privileges from the inside
>to obtain personal information about Americans will now be subject to
>criminal penalties.
>   For details about these new privacy protections, your readers can
>visit my home page at
>     http://www.senate.gov/leahy/
>
>---------Patrick J. Leahy, U.S. Senator, Vermont
>
>
      

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