Re: Hackers and gateway systems

[Benjamin Smee <ben.smee () one net au>]

"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
> In message <1310EC43D374D211A74100104B09669004E82008@DUNTX004>, "Plymale, Chery
> l" writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know of a court case where a hacker was exonerated in part
> > because of "Welcome"  was displayed on a gateway system?
>
> I've looked very hard for that, and repeatedly asked folks who claim they know
> of such a case to send me a pointer.  Thus far, I've found nothing.
>
> I repeat my plea -- if you know of such a case, please send me some sort of
> verifiable citation or pointer.


Hello,

I cant send a verifieable link, however, I can say in my previous job as
a security consultant I used to give a number of presentations and as
part of those presentations I had material that talked about a couple of
cases in the USA that illustrated this precise point. I believe the
bottom line was not necessarily the wording of "welcome" but rather that
there was no statement clearly indicating to the attacker that what he
was doing was illegal. Apparently the attacker claimed ignorance of any
wrong doing and was let off in at least the two cases I used to cite.

regards,

-- 
Benjamin Smee
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