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Prosecutors reverse stance on cybercrime conviction
News Federal prosecutors asked a San Francisco appeals court this week to reverse a computer-crime conviction that punished a California man for notifying a company's customers of a flaw in the company's email service.
[October 17, 2003, 11:30]
Jury decides first DMCA conviction
News A federal jury has convicted a Florida man of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in the first jury-trial conviction under the controversial law, according to a US attorney's office. The government's first attempt to win a jury...
[September 24, 2003, 16:40]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback This conviction seems to have been based on ignorance. If you warn a thief he's being looked at the thief will disappear and change his appearance. Where do we go from here.
[October 8, 2005, 21:04]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
News The conviction of a computer consultant who gained unauthorised access to the Disaster Emergency Committee's fundraising Web site has left security experts leafing through the magistrate's decision to try and understand the full implication of the...
[October 7, 2005, 15:40]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback What next, a conviction for getting a hole in your pocket and littering the pavement? His biggest mistakes where, to be British, to live in the UK and not to have fleeced the fund of millions of pounds.
[October 13, 2005, 10:28]
Stanford to appeal email intercept conviction
Talkback It is typical of this government to prosecute a citizen for something that this government regularly does itself as a matter of policy. In the case of Stanford, it was in the public interest. In the case of government, it is self-interest and...
[September 17, 2005, 13:59]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback How is it that a free thinking society cannot voice their dissatisfaction constructively and effectively? I don't understand and I wish someone would explain it to my as if I'm a three year old. This seems to be a perfect case to illustrate the point.
[October 7, 2005, 19:18]
Sasser bounty hangs on conviction, says Microsoft
News We would love to provide the reward once a conviction is reached," he said. Sven Jaschan, the alleged author of the Sasser worm and several variants of the Netsky virus, was charged last week by German police, but the informant who led authorities...
[September 13, 2004, 8:15]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback A lot of fuss is being made about him initially lying about his actions. But surely it is human nature to get scared at the heavy-handed response he was faced with? After all, his livelihood was on the line even though he had done nothing wrong.
[October 10, 2005, 18:27]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback "Instead, Judge Purdy found Cuthbert guilty, because he had initially lied to the police about what he had done" That's called perjury! So now anyone who changes their story is now guilty of whatever trial they're in.
[October 7, 2005, 20:03]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback What is it that people here don't get? When I was a kid I always got in more trouble for lying about my transgressions than I did if I came clean and admitted what I'd done. This was fair as in general like most people the bigger the trouble I...
[October 18, 2005, 7:10]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback Pretty scary to think that only a government-authorized security company can legally test a site's security or integrity. You can bet I'll be accepting no more contracts to verify ANY corporate networks.
[October 8, 2005, 2:37]
Stanford to appeal email intercept conviction
Talkback It is important to mention that just like telephonic conversation, a conversation through electronic mail also have the backing and support of privacy rights and any unauthorised access of the same will violate the privacy rights of its holder.
[September 16, 2005, 19:13]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback I would love to work for computer forensics. Which is the best pad, public or private?
[December 5, 2005, 9:41]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback It sounds like the lawyer that represented him got him convicted. Would you throw a cop in jail for investigating a crime? If you see me laughing, you better have backups!
[October 7, 2005, 19:24]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback Now coming to the conviction aspect, if the offender is a “first time offender” with no malicious intention (as in the present case), then the court must be liberal in his release either on probation or after due admonition.
[October 10, 2005, 19:29]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback It is interesting to me that unless you are a known thief, if you walk down a street trying doors - whilst suspicious and probably of interest to the police - you commit no crime, unless you take action thereafter to take advantage of any...
[November 14, 2005, 13:37]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback An uneducated verdict. It will spell doom if quoted as a precedence. Must be challenged to ensure that this profession survives
[October 11, 2005, 5:40]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback Just goes to show that like the majority of the laws passed by this government, it has little to do with actual wrongdoing and a lot to do with putting the mechanisms in place to protect themselves against future investigation.
[October 11, 2005, 11:00]
Tsunami 'hacker' conviction worries experts
Talkback The police need computer forensics experts, security audit professionals etc - they do not need "ethical" hackers or pen testers. There is a difference - it is about time people started to understand this.
[October 13, 2005, 1:50]
