Re: Hackers and gateway systems

[Lance Spitzner <lance () ksni net>]

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> > > > Does anyone know of a court case where a hacker was exonerated in part
> > > > because of "Welcome"  was displayed on a gateway system?

Here's a good place to start.  Grabbed this from a hackernews.com
link this August.

JERUSALEM (AP) - Four teen-agers charged with hacking into the
computer systems of the Pentagon, NASA and the Israeli parliament
pleaded innocent Thursday, the lawyer for the alleged ringleader said. 

Shmuel Tzang said his client, Ehud Tenenbaum, 19, broke no law when he
penetrated the Internet sites of American and Israeli institutions 
because there was no notice on the sites declaring them off-limits. 
 
Lance Spitzner
http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/papers.html