European Law Could Give Hackers Mimimum Two-Year Sentence 147
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from the if-only-they-understood-what-hacking-is dept.
from the if-only-they-understood-what-hacking-is dept.
judgecorp writes "A proposed European law would apply a minimum two-year prison sentence for hacking across the region. This is a step up for nations including Britain, whose Computer Misuse Act currently has a two-year maximum sentence."
Re:Also prohibits hacking tools. (Score:4, Funny)
There's amendments with lower numbers they ignore all the time.
Why should the 10th be any different?
Re:Also prohibits hacking tools. (Score:4, Funny)
No, no! That's good news! In Texas, you'd get the death penalty...
Re:Queue the misapplications of this law (Score:2, Funny)
replace the broken battery who gets charged.
Well it'd be hard to charge if the battery was still broken.