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The BBC acquired a botnet, but was it legal? - Update
From: "Ivan ." <ivanhec () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:52:20 +1100
According to Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons, in a posting on Out-Law.com, the BBC's statement that the activity would only be illegal if those behind it had criminal intent is not true. Robertson said "The BBC appears to have broken the Computer Misuse Act by causing 22,000 computers to send spam. It does not matter that the emails were sent to the BBC's own accounts and criminal intent is not necessary to establish an offence of unauthorised access to a computer". However, Robertson does not think the BBC will be punished for the action "because the BBC's actions probably caused no harm." http://www.h-online.com/security/The-BBC-acquired-a-botnet-but-was-it-legal-Update--/news/112834 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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