In article <[log in to unmask]>, joe andress
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>Interesting article today in the Washington Post.
>
><snip>
>A college student was arrested yesterday on charges of hacking into
>someone else's online brokerage account and sticking him with an
>investment loss of more than $40,000 after the student obtained
>password information with surreptitiously installed software that
>recorded the investor's computer keystrokes.
><end snip>
>
>Full article:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6081-2003Oct9.html
>

I wonder if the investor would have reported the problem if the hackers
investments on his behalf had been profitable?, and if he had, who would
the profits belong to as they no doubt would be regarded as the proceeds
of a crime.
--
Alan Yeo
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Phone +44 1684 291710   it doesn't mean someone isn't!.
Fax   +44 1684 291712

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