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Proxy Servers as 'sophisticated' criminal intent

2009, April 16 - 8:30am — Greg Kontos
Features: Current EventsCritical Path Innovation: Computers

The U.S. Sentencing Commission dropped efforts yesterday to make the use of proxy servers as evidence of sophistication in committing a crime. This change to U.S. sentencing guidelines would have increased sentences by about 25% if the person had used a proxy server.


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