Re: So, did the BBC cross the line?

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* David Lodge:

> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:25:16 -0000, Paul M. Moriarty <pmm () igtc com> wrote:
> > It seems like a pretty fine point to say it's ok to create a botnet as
> > long as one doesn't have criminal intent, don't you think?
>
> It's convoluted, the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) has a lot of ambiguous  
> clauses which state "with intent", but, on the counter side if you do  
> anything unauthorised on a computer system you are in breach (irrelevant  
> of intent).

Come to think of it, isn't a botnet a computer system?  Wouldn't that
make it illegal to dismantle it, or hamper its operation in any way?
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