[mschuster91]

> Newt Gingrich who was Speaker of the House at the time got embroiled in an incident that was recorded from a cell phone conversation.

I wonder why it's always the same names that crop up as the reason for bullshit regulations.

[jfalcon]

The 1990's were big on passing a metric fuckton of laws impacting technology as that is when most of the people started getting "online" as it were.

Wargames came out in 1984. It took about 2 years for there to be a law against computer intrusion (hacking). 18 USC 1030. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

But it got most of it's teeth in the 90's. Newt and Bill pretty much ran the 90's. Along with Janet Reno and the rest of them. People may have happy memories of the 90's but for "hackers", it was a terrible time as people were passing bad laws with little info. It's only gotten marginally better over time due to people gaining better comprehension of technology - yet somehow we haven't caught up with our own privacy invasions as a whole. (ie: GDPR and data collection)

[mschuster91]

> It's only gotten marginally better over time due to people gaining better comprehension of technology - yet somehow we haven't caught up with our own privacy invasions as a whole.

It's time for both the US and the EU to vote out all the incompetent morons of our parliaments...

[Fjolsvith]

Signed into law by someone else.