Re: Hackers and gateway systems

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9911010711220.29535-100000 () stan ksni net>, Lance Spit
zner writes:
> 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

Thanks, though of course this is an assertion (and a very recent one) likely 
based on this story that's been going around for years.  But it's the closest 
anyone has come.

                --Steve Bellovin