Toolkit

Story: MPs ponder whether 'benign' hacking should be legal

• 
• 

Why not licence "ethical hackers" i.e. security people whose job it is to test network security etc.

There would be a code of conduct, with very strict penalties for breaking these.

This would make it quite clearcut and make anything outside of what is licensed illegal.

It could be worded in such a way that it covers UK people and UK sites, but with a reciprocity clause, so that where other countries introduce laws, the most stringent condition of the two applies.

This would allow the UK to take a lead, but not be in conflict with other countries where the law differs.

As a side effect, the same law could cover some goverment activities e.g. MI5. They might be allowed a wider range of powers, but they would then become subject to the same laws as the rest of us.

• 
• 

• 
• 
• 

Full Talkback thread