<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Fascinating Barrack, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for sharing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It reminds me of a funny flash video from 2001 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXCqFh4XwJ8" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXCqFh4XwJ8</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apologies for the lols, it just gave me a nostalgic chuckle. It is a very interesting jurisdictional issue. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards, </div><div class="">Alex</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Aug 2019, at 09:38, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Learned Listers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interesting quagmire, interested in local perspectives.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Richard Bennett via InternetPolicy</b> <span dir="auto" class=""><<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" class="">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>></span><br class="">Date: Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 5:48 AM<br class="">Subject: [Internet Policy] Internet-enabled space crime<br class="">To: ISOC Policy <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org" class="">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">An astronaut unlawfully accessed her wife’s bank accounts from the International Space Station. The couple are going through a bitter divorce, custody battle, etc. This is apparently the first crime to be committed in space, so the jurisdiction issues are somewhat interesting as they are with all Internet-enabled crimes. Presumably US law applies since the bank is located in the US, but I don’t really know.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html" target="_blank" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="">"Ms. McClain acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the couple’s still-intertwined finances. Ms. Worden felt differently. She filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and her family lodged one with NASA’s Office of Inspector General, accusing Ms. McClain of identity theft and improper access to Ms. Worden’s private financial records.</span><div class=""><span class=""><br class="">"Investigators from the inspector general’s office have since contacted Ms. Worden and Ms. McClain, trying to get to the bottom of what may be the first allegation of criminal wrongdoing in space.<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">"“I was pretty appalled that she would go that far. I knew it was not O.K.,” Ms. Worden said.</span>”</div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Opinions?</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">RB<br class=""><div class="">—<br class="">Richard Bennett<br class="">High Tech Forum Founder<br class="">Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator<br class=""><br class="">Internet Policy Consultant<br class=""></div><br class=""></span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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