[LINK] Oz hackers face prison

[Greg Taylor]

At 21:04 12/02/00 +1100, Stewart Fist wrote:
>..
>God this government can move fast when someone does something nasty on the
Web
>-- like threatening commerce.

They've been working on the new Criminal Code for some years.  This week's
events just made for a good "photo opportunity" and happened to coincide
with the recent completion of the Computer Offences Discussion Paper, which
might otherwise have never been newsworthy ;-)

http://law.gov.au/publications/Model_Criminal_Code/index.htm

Greg