Email bomber faces retrial
Talkback Yet again my Taxes are wasted on pointless exercises making fat cat legal people even richer. The law is obviously badly worded and therefore needs updating in parliament, not some wannabe saying "but they would have meant this if they had thought...
[May 12, 2006, 12:04]
Email bomber to be electronically tagged
News A UK teenager pleaded guilty on Wednesday to breaking the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) by crashing the email server of his former employer. Lennon had originally been cleared of the charges in November 2005, after another judge ruled that it wasn't an...
[August 23, 2006, 12:40]
Email bomber faces retrial
News David Lennon, who is now 18 and can therefore be named for the first time, is alleged to have used a mail bombing programme called Avalanche to send approximately five million emails to his former employers, Domestic and General Group plc, in...
[May 11, 2006, 16:10]
Google keeps up porn probe battle
Talkback Even better lets short out the email monitors by everyone sending an email with all the buzzwords they can think of such as suicide bomber, Al Qaeda, George Bush, ricin, anthrax, nuclear attack.truck bombs, jihad, Allah,
[February 20, 2006, 13:44]
Teenager may face appeal over email attacks
News Judge Grant ruled that this kind of attack is not illegal under the CMA, because the sending of an email would not cause any unauthorised modification to the server that received it. The teenager accused of email bombing his former employer is also...
[January 5, 2006, 12:00]
Government must update cybercrime laws, say experts
News Computer Misuse Act to include denial of service attacks in the light of this week's email bomber trial, according to legal experts. The defence solicitor at this week's email bomber trial believes his client should not have been charged under the...
[November 4, 2005, 16:05]
The CMA is an ass
Leader We're not concerned so much with the rights and wrongs of a disgruntled individual sending an email bomb to his former employer — something the youth never denied and the judge accepted had happened — but the inability of the CMA to address what...
[November 3, 2005, 13:20]
