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hello tony albrecht, that's a good question and since  you asked openly,
i shall reply to you and the net (there have been many private mails on
the subject). china, as you may know has a death penalty, for all kinds
of crimes, from sordid drug dealers to yes, hackers. as the world races
for cheap goods, fabricated in china, with favored trading status, by
clinton, and as the chinese foreign minister is soon to arrive here in
paris, weeks after the dalai lama received his belated lunch invitation
from jacques chirac, you may remember that the chinese are funding the
arms purchases of the burmese regime, so perhaps you might think that
china should go unchecked here too, in its treatment of these former
democratic rebels. yes, it is a pity and a shame that today, those
facing death in china should be considered clutter by those interested
in freedom in burma. perhaps you might better use your intelligence to
find creative solutions to their dire fate, as they used technology
perhaps more skill and imagination than most people. i should think
there ought to be a strong movement in solidarity support in their
interest. Don't you, or do you prefer to see them swing for crimes
judged by the same henchmen bankrolling the arms traffic in rangoon?

dawn star

Tony Albrecht wrote:
> 
> why is this cluttering up Burmanet? how does this kind of comment
> contribute to a better life for the people in Burma?
>    -----Original Message-----
> > From: dawn star [SMTP:dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 02, 1999 7:31 AM
> > To:   burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:      Hacked in China
> >
> > does crime pay, in china? give these guys a break, won't cha? if these
> > guys were so smart, why did they get caught? in the us they would be
> > working for the cia by now, or merrill lynch...at six figure dollar
> > incomes.
> >
> > December 29, 1998
> > China sentences bank hackers to death concerned about the effect
> >
> > A Chinese court has sentenced two          [Image]

> >       [Image]brothers to death for using a computer to
> > hack their way into a bank's system and
> > electronically steal 720,000 yuan

> > ($86,900).
> > The official Wenhui Daily said the trial
> > had been the country's first case of
> > theft by remote means.
> >
> > An intermediate court judge in the
> > eastern city of Yangzhou said that the
> > sentence reflected the "tough stance"
> >   that the country had to take against an
> > expected wave of high-tech crime.
> > Hao Jingrong, an employee at an            [Image]
> > Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
> >              branch in Zhenjiang, secretly connected a [Image]
> >              home-made modem to the bank's computer in [Image]
> >              September.                                [Image]
> >
> >        His twin brother, Hao Jingwen, then used   [Image]
> >              a personal computer set up in a specially
> >              rented apartment in Yangzhou to dial into
> >              the bank system and transfer the funds.
> >
> >              The funds were then deposited in 16
> > accounts that the brothers had opened
> >              under false names.
> >
> >              The report did not clarify how the
> >              authorities traced them but by the time
> >              they were caught they had withdrawn a
> >              total of 260,000 yuan.
> >
> >              The sentence also includes a fine of
> >              40,000 yuan.
> >
> >              In November China announced it was
> >              stepping up measures to deal with
> >              computer hackers after a spate of
> >              incidents, including the hacking of a
> >              government human rights Website.
> >
> > bbc