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Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
From: Christian Vogel <chris () obelix hedonism cx>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:56:30 +0100
Hi Mariusz, On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 05:09:27PM +0100, Mariusz Woloszyn wrote:
Do you have an explicit permission to read the content of a www.cnn.com? What is the difference between opening a web URL and a network share?
i think "technical" people often think of the law-system as something as C-code, as it's written there is only one way for a standard compliant compiler to interpret it. I think the judges are more flexible than gcc in this regard, they can also assume that one perfectly knows that one is supposed to read http://www.cnn.com but not to read http://qz25srv.competitor.com/internal/memos/strategy.doc (made up example) even if -- from a technical standpoint -- there is no difference. They will most likely assume that it was very negligent for the competitor to leave his business plan in the open and value this in their decision, but nevertheless you should have known better than to state "I thought it was meant to be published". And yes, I'm normally also in favour of the technical viewpoint... :-) Chris
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- Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Mariusz Woloszyn (Feb 02)
- Re: [security] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate rsh (Feb 03)
- Re: [security] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Bernie, CTA (Feb 04)
- RE: [security] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Larry Seltzer (Feb 07)
- Re: [security] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Bernie, CTA (Feb 04)
- Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Christian Vogel (Feb 03)
- Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Ron DuFresne (Feb 03)
- Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Daniel . Capo (Feb 03)
- Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate Thomas M. Payerle (Feb 06)
- RE: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate David Schwartz (Feb 03)
- Re: [security] Re: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate rsh (Feb 03)