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Subject: Re: Cracked; rootkit - entrapment question?
From: Roy Wilson (emperorSQUONK.NET)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 21:06:45 CST

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:10:44 -0800, Robert Graham wrote:

>This is an old question. Entrapment laws change from state to state in the
>U.S., but all of them are pretty consistent. Entrapment is encouraging
>someone to behave in a way that they would not otherwise behave. Mearly
>affording somebody the opportunity to commit a crime is not entrapment. In
>any case, private citizens cannot entrap: only law enforcement agencies.

        Entrapment isn't an issue, if you set one up the defense will
claim that you were "maintaining an attractive nuisance", the same as
putting a sign saying "DANGER! PIRAHNAS!" on a pool or pond in the
hopes of keeping kids out of it.

Roy Wilson <emperorsquonk.net> <CM# 1663>
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