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Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback Here's a guy who has made a donation to the Tsunami appeal, and now has a criminal record. Going totally against the flow of the comments here, has anyone actually considered the ramifications of this decision?
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 14, 2005, 12:13]
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Talkback does that mean people think i can test their house security by entering their homes? surely i can test my own home but not someone elses, and the same must be true for websites.
About: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
[October 11, 2005, 15:23]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback Well if this is now a crime, then come get me right now because I get "unauthorized" errors all the time, and all I was trying to do is click on a web site. For example, it is common for me to do a search and come up with some page on someone's web...
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 15, 2005, 3:05]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback Evil Wizard, if you can't believe what I'm saying, have you tried reading RFC3986? This isn't at all a case of someone attempting to break in. The query he sent is allowable under agreed international standards.
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 14, 2005, 22:52]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback John I dont believe in this case you can say there is no way that you can know what pages you are authorized to view and what aren't. This guy is a supposed infosec consultant. I know that if I go to a website and then purposely start doing some...
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 14, 2005, 19:12]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback Evil Wizard, what you say is true only if the server was misconfigured. RFC 3986 states that webservers should be able to handle this, and this is an accepted best practice document. Also, folks, trying a car or a house door isn't an offence either.
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 14, 2005, 18:23]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback Ok first off the analogy that what Cuthbert did is like wiggling door knobs to see if door knobs are open is total crap. A more appropriate analogy would be he was trying to open doors with a lockpick set, which would be a crime.
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 14, 2005, 16:09]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback There is an obvious breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, as a result of unauthorised acess however, the intent to commit further offences cannot be established. Cuthbert's premise of accessing the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Web site...
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 14, 2005, 12:01]
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Talkback Posting a website is an invitation to enter. It is like opening a store on a high street. The store may have several departments accessed via different doors. If a door is signed "Staff Only" then the consequences of opening the door are clear.
About: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
[October 13, 2005, 21:54]
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Talkback The ruling is unfair and I will go with the majority of the views. It's not as if he deliberately wanted to cause damage. I presumed DEC has a log of his £30 donation, so why did they allow it to go so far.
About: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
[October 13, 2005, 17:59]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback How is it that a free thinking society cannot voice their dissatisfaction constructively and effectively? I don't understand and I wish someone would explain it to my as if I'm a three year old. This seems to be a perfect case to illustrate the point.
About: Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
[October 7, 2005, 19:18]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback His biggest mistakes where, to be British, to live in the UK and not to have fleeced the fund of millions of pounds. Had he been any other race, in any other country, he could have got away with millions as our police and judicial system don't want...
About: Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
[October 13, 2005, 10:28]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback The police need computer forensics experts, security audit professionals etc - they do not need "ethical" hackers or pen testers. There is a difference - it is about time people started to understand this.
About: Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
[October 13, 2005, 1:50]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback if there is a building and the front door is open and there is a welcome sign in the front.can you be arrested for trespassing if the owner tells you to leave and you do? any lawyers out there.is that too simple of an explanation?
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 6, 2005, 19:09]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback Wow. Getting responses from ports on a network computer is like looking in the windows of a store. The computer should not be running anything on those ports if they do not want connections. Network is path to your computer, like a road
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 6, 2005, 17:04]
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Talkback If, as reported he tried the ol' /.trick, then he was obviously testing to see if the web server was vulnerable to this well documented flaw of allowing root access via a specific url sent to it. This type of "attack" can reveal pertinent info on...
About: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
[October 12, 2005, 20:13]
Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Talkback I understand that what he did broke the law, but that surely indictes that the law itself is faulty here. The "attack" has been likened to trying doors to see if they're open - a good analogy. Well, if I caught someone trying the locked door of my...
About: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
[October 12, 2005, 11:14]
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Talkback It is unclear to me and, no doubt, most other folk what the laws are in respect to browsing, hacking (intentional or otherwise), DRM, etc. There is a blizzard of reports from arount the World on these and other related topics and each cites a...
About: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
[October 12, 2005, 8:50]
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Talkback Was this hacking or just 'acking? If you go for a walk and wander onto somebodys land without causing or intending any damage then that's just trespass, but if you did intend damage then that's criminal trespass.
About: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
[October 11, 2005, 22:57]
Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Talkback How ludicrous that an act as simple as trying an amended url can result in a fine and loss of employment. So now we must check and double check when entering a URL in case we set of an IDS alarm with our mis-spelling.
About: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
[October 11, 2005, 13:38]
