
While this may be welcome to those who have suffered at the hands of such folk, there are worries. TechNews quotes Internet security experts as saying the number of computer-related prosecutions could rise as federal prosecutors try to tie them into otherwise unrelated crimes. The government reckons not: the piece quotes John G. Malcolm, the Justice Department’s computer crimes chief, as saying: “whether they’re drug dealers, embezzlers, hackers or software pirates… people who commit crimes use computers more than they used to.”