Re: So, did the BBC cross the line?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

For extra fun, redefine the "line" in the phrase "crossing the line."

So far we've been looking at the legality of this act in terms of the relevant British 
law.  However, did anyone check that all of those infected computers were, in 
fact, in Britain?  I suspect that not only did this go unchecked, but that, in fact, a 
large number were in other jurisdictions.

So, leave us suppose that one of the said machines was here in the Great White 
North.  Our criminal code states that anyone who, without colour of right (I love 
that phrase) alters (I think it's alters, but it might be modifies) any data on a 
computer system is guilty of an offence.

Anyone think of any way to command a botnet without changing any data?

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We have met the enemy and he is us.           - Walt Kelly 1913-1973
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm 
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