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Innocent Surfers Can Appear Guilty Of Song-swapping
News Security flaws in Internet file-sharing networks could incriminate innocent users, according to a research paper. The Gnutella network would show that the innocent user is sharing copyrighted files, if network messages that usually rely on users to...
[October 3, 2003, 9:25]
FBI Interview With ZDNet News: Innocent Images
News It is a problem the government takes seriously: in last year's budget Congress gave the FBI $10m (£6m) to double the staff working with the undercover operation, Innocent Images. It became apparent that paedophiles were using the Net so we set up...
[March 22, 1999, 10:41]
The Ethics Of Tracing Hacker Attacks Through The Machines Of Innocent Persons
White Papers The use of invasive tracebacks raise ethical issues because, in most cases, they involve trespassing upon the machines of innocent owners. Sophisticated hackers attempt to conceal their identities by routing their attacks through layers of innocent...
[February 20, 2005, 23:00]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback What happens if someone put that URL up as a link on a web page? Is everyone who clicks on it a criminal? He lied to the police - do him for wasting police time. But if the webserver was configured to give a response to his (valid) request, and he...
[October 10, 2005, 16:33]
Innocent Surfers Can Appear Guilty Of Song-swapping
Talkback I am sorry to inform you but the P2P wave has hit almost every aspect it can. The economic effects are far savere than a lot of people can imagine. And the problem is no body does take a second to think of the ramifications of their actions...
[October 3, 2003, 12:19]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback This is like a house breaker accidentally setting off an alarm then stopping what he was doing and providing a lame excuse when the police arrived. Cuthbert changed his story during the proceedings. Presumably on the advice of his lawyers.
[October 18, 2005, 6:44]
Innocent Emails Are A Victim Of Spam War
News Spam has become such a vexing problem that, if current trends continue, email could become a far less useful way to communicate. Some of the muscular responses to unsolicited bulk email, such as blacklists that target Internet providers used by...
[May 2, 2003, 8:06]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback I not a security speaclist, or judge. However you need to consider the whole facts. He said he was tesing to see if the site was real or fake, however no one has mentioned the fact that he changed his story, or alibi.
[October 14, 2005, 13:13]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback Posting a website is an invitation to enter. It is like opening a store on a high street. The store may have several departments accessed via different doors. If a door is signed "Staff Only" then the consequences of opening the door are clear.
[October 13, 2005, 21:54]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback 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.
[October 13, 2005, 17:59]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback If, as reported he tried the ol' /.trick, then he was obviously testing to see if the web server was vulnerable to this well documented flaw of allowing root access via a specific url sent to it. This type of "attack" can reveal pertinent info on...
[October 12, 2005, 20:13]
Innocent Surfers Can Appear Guilty Of Song-swapping
Talkback To the author of the missive about books being traded. When did you wake up Rip? Everything that can be traded is and has been traded for some time. And there is nothing you can do about so drop your angst-ridden comments.
[October 4, 2003, 0:13]
Internet Porn: Guilty Till Proven Innocent
Talkback Right on. Companies often generate a spurious excuse to dismiss an employee in order to disguise the real reason and avoid compensation. But look at the wider issue: It costs the police some £2,000 to conduct a forensic investigation of a computer...
[December 3, 2004, 2:01]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback It is unclear to me and, no doubt, most other folk what the laws are in respect to browsing, hacking (intentional or otherwise), DRM, etc. There is a blizzard of reports from arount the World on these and other related topics and each cites a...
[October 12, 2005, 8:50]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback Was this hacking or just 'acking? If you go for a walk and wander onto somebodys land without causing or intending any damage then that's just trespass, but if you did intend damage then that's criminal trespass.
[October 11, 2005, 22:57]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback does that mean people think i can test their house security by entering their homes? surely i can test my own home but not someone elses, and the same must be true for websites.
[October 11, 2005, 15:23]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback How ludicrous that an act as simple as trying an amended url can result in a fine and loss of employment. So now we must check and double check when entering a URL in case we set of an IDS alarm with our mis-spelling.
[October 11, 2005, 13:38]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback Having read this, it is even more Bolleux than I thought. The whole point of the web is to put web servers on it to be accessed. As previously mentioned if the part of the web server is private then it should return forbidden.
[October 11, 2005, 13:25]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback The situation has arisen due to the wordings of the statute. Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act, 1990, considers an unauthorised access to a computer site as a crime if the person accessing the system “knows” that he is not authorised to access...
[October 11, 2005, 6:05]
Tsunami 'hacker' Is Innocent, Say Readers
Talkback So how do you check if a website is genuine or not? And if it is so easy to "hack" a URL, how often is this happening?
[October 10, 2005, 22:21]
