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Story: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Posted by: Evil Wizard (Friday 7 October 2005, 6:42 PM)
The first person talks about connecting on common ports and that is not a crime... Do you know anything about hacking or about computers in general? Just because port 80/http is open on a webserver does not give me the right to exploit a vulnerability associated with that port. This guy tried to do a directory traversal attack against the site. He basically went to the site and typed /../../../../ and what not to try and drill down in directories he knew he had no access to. Guess what that is illegal. People argue he did no damage. Well wrong again. The site owners and law enforcement had to spend money and resources to investigate the attack which is monetary damages. Plus just because he didn't damage doesn't mean it is ok. If I break into a computer system to view private files just for my own curiousity does that make it legal. This was a pretty easy case to decide as it is a "security professional" that attacked a website illegally.
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Story: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
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Wow. Getting responses from ports on a network com... richard -
if there is a building and the front door is... spacelab10000 -
No, it's like walking around trying everyone'... Anonymous
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"The only reason he did this is because he thought... Anonymous
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The first person talks about connecting on co... Evil Wizard -
As a programmer (not just another web surfer) I wo... Anonymous
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I'm sorry if we offended the programmer -- wh... Matt Loney
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He claims he was scared that the site was a phishi... Anonymous
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If you'd like to tell the judge what you think of... Anonymous
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Go to any security professional and they shou... Anonymous
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Read the UK law, did he attempt to penet... Anonymous -
I understand that what he did broke... Anonymous
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Going totally against the flow... John Airey
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Ok first off the analogy that... Evil Wizard
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Evil Wizard, what you say is t... John Airey
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John I dont believe in this ca... Evil Wizard
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Evil Wizard, if you can't beli... John Airey
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There is an obvious breach of the Computer Misuse... Alex Pinheiro
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Well if this is now a crime, then come get me righ... Anonymous
