Tech news and insider stories for the IT industry - the i-kew blog: "World's biggest hacker?
Never trust a law-maker who says: 'This law will only be used in certain circumstances.'
When it was first decided to pass laws against 'hacking into' remote computers, some of us opposed the idea. I remember attending a debate at Imperial College with a (then Conservative) MP, Emma Nicholson - who made the case for a law: that it would be used only when people caused damage, and not as a way of putting experimenters in jail."
Interesting article on Gary McKinnon and the US laws which not only effect the UK's citizens - but also businesses. As our laws are getting more and more akin to the US right of way :-D, so too are small examples like this are being avoided by the press.
"The people who should be in dock, clearly, are the idiots in the US Navy computing centre who have passwords of "PASSWORD" and the system managers who failed to secure the system. "
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
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