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Story: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
Posted by: Vinod Patel (Thursday 13 October 2005, 5:59 PM)
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.
Is ping-ing the web server technically illegal ?. It's akin to pushing a door open to an organisation to see if they are open for business (but not entering).
A port scan could reveal any opening so we have to be careful, but even that is like a criminal walking around a building to see how to potentially break in and this is not a crime. I don't know what application he used, but it may be that he trespassed onto the site, fully armed , but providing that no damage is done shouldn't have to loose his job, but severly slapped on his wrist.
I mean how far up the OSI stack and what applications can be run before it is considered an offence?
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Story: Tsunami 'hacker' is innocent, say readers
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It is unclear to me and, no doubt, most other... Noh W Jose
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Having read this, it is even more Bolleux than I t... Steve B
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How ludicrous that an act as simple as trying... Anonymous
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If, as reported he tried the ol' /../../... Richard Pettigrew -
does that mean people think i can test their house... danny carr
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Was this hacking or just 'acking? If you go for a... Writtroam
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The ruling is unfair and I will go with the majori... Vinod Patel -
Posting a website is an invitation to enter. It i... Anonymous
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I not a security speaclist, or judge. However you... Anonymous
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