Civil liberties groups are concerned that the anti-terrorism bill proposed by the Bush Administration would lump small-time hackers in with murderous terrorists. The draft proposal from Attorney General John Ashcroft would expand law enforcement's freedom to catch and punish terrorists. It . . .
Civil liberties groups are concerned that the anti-terrorism bill proposed by the Bush Administration would lump small-time hackers in with murderous terrorists. The draft proposal from Attorney General John Ashcroft would expand law enforcement's freedom to catch and punish terrorists. It would also expand the definition of ``federal terrorism offenses'' to include various crimes, including damaging computers by breaking into them or writing viruses.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based cyber civil liberties group, is ``greatly alarmed'' by the hacker provision, wrote executive director Shari Steele in an e-mail to the Chronicle.

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