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Story: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
Posted by: Alex Pinheiro (Friday 14 October 2005, 12:01 PM)
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 was based on his intent to ascertain that he has not been conned, there has been cases of port re-direction on websites in which case the victim is not protected from fraud.
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Story: Tsunami appeal site 'hacker' found guilty
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