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UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

News We are concerned that the scope of [section 41 of] the bill is too broad, and could criminalise a lot of innocent people," said Hutty. The Home Office denies suggestions that the bill will criminalise systems administrators by outlawing software...

[May 19, 2006, 14:15]

Home Office may criminalise chatroom 'grooming'

News The proposal would criminalise preparatory acts that are clearly leading to a criminal offence," said the Home Office spokesman. Home Office backtracks on its argument that UK laws exist to protect children online

[May 9, 2001, 14:25]

Home Office to criminalise chatroom meetings

News The home secretary has accepted recommendations made by the Home Office Internet taskforce to criminalise the online "grooming" of children, making it a criminal offence for an Internet paedophile to meet a child offline with the intention of...

[July 20, 2001, 17:18]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback Who is really behind this new law? Who actually benefits? Actually maybe this is the real point of the legislation - it has commercial intent. Perhaps hackers generally use open source tools, so selling MS Windows will be ok, but Linux will be...

[May 23, 2006, 11:27]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback Looks like my turn for being raided and convicted will surely come as I have enough on my computers right now to justify being jailed. I expect next that citizens will only be allowed to communicate using approved pen and plain paper with the...

[May 23, 2006, 12:16]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback Great, so now we have the Home Office telling us that they can discern between software written for a hack withot criminal intent, and a hack with criminal intent. Aren't they the same experts who attributed criminal records to 1500 innocent people...

[May 22, 2006, 13:28]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback As anyone who works in network admin knows, hacking and network security tools are basically the same thing. I have never attempted to access a network i don't already have permission for, yet my machine is full of tools such as Cain and Abel...

[May 23, 2006, 10:39]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback The real goal lobbied for really is ofcourse getting control over those that could raise a finger and ask difficult questions. It's always better to obtain an additional stick to beat someone over the head with.

[May 20, 2006, 0:04]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback The sooner parliament is dragged kicking and screaming out of the 19th century and into this one, the better for us all. The digital revolution is up and running and it's going to leave all those dinosaurs in it's wake.

[May 20, 2006, 9:36]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback And where does this end? What defines an 'article' under this law? Are Dell guilty of supplying PC's to criminals; or Intel, or Microsoft. BT must know that sometimes their copper is used to transmit DDoS attacks.

[May 22, 2006, 10:28]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback I contacted my MP, Meg Munn over this about 4 months ago when it was first announced, I was promised that the law would be written in such a way as to safeguard legitimate uses of software such as NMAP.

[May 22, 2006, 11:13]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback STBO but this will be decided at great expense in the courts. Possibly by teams containing such people as Cherie and the soon to be unemployed Tony. If it will be illegal for XP, w2k, w98 etc to be sold or used by businesses does that mean we will...

[May 22, 2006, 14:23]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback I also believe that hacking is currently illegal. I notice that this never stopped anyone! Dont worry about it, i highly doubt the coppers will come and get if if you write your software. IF you start to misuse it then maybe.

[September 1, 2006, 16:23]

UK law will criminalise IT pros, say experts

Talkback So, it would be illegal to sell PCs or MS Windows? I mean correct me if I'm wrong, but I read part (b) to say: A person is guilty of an offence if he makes or supplies any article, believing it is likely to be used to assist in the commission of...

[May 22, 2006, 10:26]

Peer loses cybercrime fight

News A Conservative peer's attempt to amend a law that could criminalise IT professionals has failed. This proposed law has been heavily criticised by Lords and senior security experts, who say it could criminalise both the police and innocent IT...

[July 14, 2006, 16:25]

Lord vows to fight cybercrime laws

News A proposed UK law has been heavily criticised by Lords and senior security experts, who say it could criminalise both the police and innocent IT professionals who build or make available programs which are then used for hacking.

[May 25, 2006, 16:05]

Straw makes Internet grooming an election issue

News Internet "grooming" has become an election issue for the Labour party, with opposition parties accusing the government of deceitfully taking ownership of a proposal to criminalise the online solicitation of children in the run-up to the general...

[May 21, 2001, 13:37]

Home Office 'wrong' over criminalisation of IT pros

News Home Office minister Vernon Coaker claimed this week that amendments to the CMA will only criminalise those who make and distribute hacking tools with the intention of breaking the law. Concerns have rightly been raised about whether the new...

[July 19, 2006, 16:45]

Government puts onus for chatroom policing on ISPs

News An Internet Crime Forum Report published on Tuesday challenges all ISPs to moderate chatrooms specifically created for children, but fails to consider new laws to criminalise online "grooming". The government has however consistently rejected...

[March 20, 2001, 15:15]

The Year Ahead: Is the Internet becoming safer for children?

News Internet chatrooms were recognised as a breeding ground for sophisticated Net predators, and the Home Office was compelled to pave new legislation that would criminalise the online "grooming" of children.

[January 1, 2002, 6:31]

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