Credit fraud-hacking:
This link, and this link.
Comments expressing thoughts on issue, would be greatly appreciated, especially with reasoning stated that led to a conclusion.
Should service providers, those enabling a fraudster's link from a workstation to the Internet, be held to a policing standard, and be liable in some fashion, to some degree?
In China certain "corruption" crimes have led to execution of the offender.
If that strong a general deterrent were in law, would you think there would be less Internet crime of this kind? Certainly it would reduce recidivism, but beyond that?
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Honor among theives? This link.
Should one who abuses a public trust to enrich family be let off easier; i.e., where mixed-motive situations can be argued - and public benefit vs. private are arguably hazy, is that cause for restraint in criminalization of behavior? NOTE: The question is not whether there should be some ex post facto reach back at conduct not criminally culpable at the time the conduct occurred; moral judgments can exist, but I would not suggest ex post facto criminalization is at all sound, and instead I believe it would threaten some basic values our nation is said to treasure.
Any reader thoughts on either update paragraph?