California Passes Nation's First Antiphishing Law

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20051004/tc_nf/38456



cool, so now the worlds idiots have a small hope.

 

[DeeperShade]

Under the Anti-Phishing Act, introduced by state Senator Kevin Murray, any attempt "to solicit, request or take any action to induce another person" to divulge personal information on the Internet via "a Web page, electronic mail message or any other electronic means" while representing oneself as a business without the permission or authority of that business is a civil violation.

Oh goody. That'll show them nigerians...
Another BS law.

 

[Olga]

I thought you were purposely misspelling "fishing" and therefore thought this was going to be kind of hi-larious. Guess not.

 

[NiftyBoy]

This'll stop all of nothing just like antispam laws did. They'll just move overseas where it's legal or continue faking IPs.

 

[togmkn]

Laws just can't protect our privacy, no matter how many are passed. I just found out that around the late 1980s or early 1990s (I can't remember really,) they made it illegal to telemarket. Did they even once stop and make an attempt, even half-ass, to enforce that? No, there will always be spam and telemarketing and whatnot. The only thing they're kinda trying to get rid of is identity theft. Spam and dinnertime phone calls are a nuisance, but identity theft is more serious. But, I don't really mind spam and telemarketing as much as other people do. Some people flip out, like, "What the hell do they think they're doing, calling me at this time! I have so many emails to delete!" O NOES! You have to be a total moron to believe those Nigerian emails, and using a spam filter/junk folder is easy. Sure, it sucks, but it's not like identity theft. And I don't think anyone's saying otherwise.

 

[DRT-Maverick]

Well it's a good concept and looks good on paper, but when applied to the internet, which in itself is a whole different world, or even universe from our real one, (it's the wired, there are borders between the wired and real world, and laws of the real world cannot cross), it doesn't do much, or anything.