Computer crime law is a double-edged sword. We need laws that protect us from computer crimes, yet we also need to make sure that computer crime laws are not so broad and sweeping that they infringe on our civil liberties and constitutional rights. Mitchell Kapor addresses this issue in "Civil Liberties in Cyberspace: When Does Hacking Turn from an Exercise of Civil Liberties into Crime?" at www.eff.org/pub/Legal/cyberliberties_kapor.article. The Electronic Frontier Foundation at www.eff.org was founded by Kapor and others to protect civil liberties as technology changes the way people work and do business. At the EFF Web site, you can find articles about computer crime, civil liberties, computer searches and seizures, and other topics related to computers and the law. At the Laws and Crime site, www.blkbox.com/~guillory/comp4.html, you can find a directory that includes links to U.S. federal and state computer crime laws, computer crime sentencing guidelines, and computer crime categories. At the National Security Institute (nsi.org), you can read "Computer Security and the Law" (nsi.org/Library/Compsec/cslaw.txt), an article that provides information for lawyers on the legal aspects of computer security. Computer Crime: A Crime Fighter's Handbook by David Icove, Karl Seger, and William VonStorch (O'Reilley, 1995) is a highly regarded book about computer crime. You can read a synopsis and review of this book at www.ora.com/catalog/crime/desc.html.

For information on the Mitnick case that was discussed in the Issue section of this chapter, read the WiredNews article, "Mitnick Could Go Free in January" written by Douglas Thomas, at www.wired.com/news/news/polkitics/story/21197.html, then connect to Adam Penenberg's short, but fascinating interview with Kevin Mitnick at www.forbes.com/tool/html/99/apr/0405/feat.htm. For the hacker/cracker viewpoint on the Mitnick case and on general matters of messing around with computers, check out the Crypt Newsletter at sun.soci.niu.edu/~crypt.