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posted by chromas on Tuesday March 27 2018, @07:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the Go-to-jail.⠀Go-directly-to-jail.⠀Do-not-pass-Go.⠀Do-pay-$5000 dept.

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GA SB 315 (LC 29 8107S) (PDF) just passed the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee and will be voted on this week. While significantly improved through the committee process, it still creates a dangerously broad definition of Criminal Unauthorized Computer Access that is so sweeping, people will need permission before visiting any website.

This bill was drafted because Georgia law enforcement and the U.S. FBI could not find any law broken by a professional security researcher. This researcher tried to alert Georgia election officials of voter data inappropriately published publicly on the Internet by Kennesaw State University, a contractor for the Georgia Secretary of State's Office. What he discovered through ordinary Google searching was that voters' names, addresses, and other private information was indexed by Google and accessible by anyone. After months, he and another researcher discovered that the data was still available on the public Internet and brought it to the attention of the media. Only under the daylight of public attention was the data removed from the Internet in an embarrassing scandal.

We must protect the status quo at all costs! /s

Source: https://rietta.com/blog/2018/03/26/georgia-sb-315-anti-hacking-bill/

SB315 as currently written states that any person who accesses a computer or computer network with knowledge that such access is without authority (such as unauthorized password disclosure) will be guilty of the crime of unauthorized computer access. Exceptions are for parents of children under the age of 18 or for persons conducting legitimate business activity. The penalty for a conviction is a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated manner, which can net a person a US $5,000 fine and a year in jail.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:17PM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 27 2018, @12:17PM (#658934) Journal

    Looks like beaurocracy

    Ah, those French people.

    The correct spelling is beurrocracy - governance by butter.
    Alternatively, if you wanted governance by beau (watch 'Gone with the wind' if you want to see what the Georgians traditionally understood by beau), it is spelled beaucracy

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Taibhsear on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:01PM (1 child)

    by Taibhsear (1464) on Tuesday March 27 2018, @03:01PM (#658995)

    The correct spelling is beurrocracy - governance by butter.

    Not to be confused by Burrocracy - being governed by asses. Which is what we currently have in America.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday March 28 2018, @12:35AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 28 2018, @12:35AM (#659251) Journal

      I wonder what the correct spelling for 'governance up your ass with lotsa-butter lubrication, you may actually get to like it'?
      Maybe "European-style social-democracy"?

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