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@starrion: I would think not but that would spawn a massive lawsuit against Microsoft if it did. Expecially with there most recent hiden patch that they pushed out.
@starrion: I would think not but that would spawn a massive lawsuit against Microsoft if it did. Expecially with there most recent hiden patch that they pushed out.
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My gawd. Legislation to actually help the daily lives of citizens instead of forcing brain-dead Florida women to spend extra decades as a vegetable over the complaints of her husband? No mega-billion-dollar-giveaways to well-connected lobbying clients?! Stop the madness!
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Looks like not much of anything good here! The local police won't take reports when your credit card number is stolen and used so why would we expect anything good from the federal level.
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This idea took until now to come around because??
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Just a question here... how much money do you think you'd get in restitution from someone who needs to steal you identity for a living?
You could maybe make an argument in court that if the police doesn't take your report of a stolen credit card that is being used god knows where, they're aiding and abetting a criminal....I wonder if that would fly in court.
@MercuryPDX:
Exactly.
Legislation that expands your ALREADY EXISTING ability to recover $ you lost from a low-life thief who doesn't have $ in the first place??? Thank god for the US Senate... Now if this gave a restitution right against the Bank/CC Company/Hospital/Mortgage company with sloppy securitythat lost your personal info in the first place, that'd be different.
This is nothing more than a massive expansion of federal computer crime laws gussied up as ID theft protection. Now anything you do on teh Internets that a prosecutor doesn't like/understand is a Federal crime. At least the prior version had a $5k threshold before you could be prosecuted. Now, use your mom's AOL account to check a website = midemeanor??? Post to a blog while on a work computer in violation of your boss' computer use policy = misdemeanor??? Way to go, Pat and Arlen.
well, the thief's have money, but none that you can have since its probably stolen from others.
I wonder if any intrusion on to a consumer's PC would qualify.