[Gllug] A few words on the topic of stock spam

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Richard Jones wrote:

> Not really.  If you were to do any of the following acts, then the USA
> would perfectly well be within its rights to ask for you to be
> extradited, and I think we'd all support them:
> 
>  - Post anthrax to a destination in the US.

That would be an offence here and should be prosectuted here. 

It's an act of terrorism and we have sufficient laws and a sufficiently 
aware judicial system for dealing with that.

Moreover extradition in such a case could well be unlawful as the accused 
could end up facing the death penalty.

>  - Remotely log in to a nuclear power station control system and
>    cause it to melt down.

In such a case there is a strong arguement for stating that the offence 
was committed in the US as that is the location of the systems the 
accused will have entered into.

> Where there may be problems is if you weren't breaking a law in your own
> country, or if the US was not directly affected by your act, or if we
> had a one-sided extradition treaty with them.

And the latter is exactly what we do have.

Jason
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